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Integrations

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
over 3 years ago in Instana / Integrations Delivered

Parse User Mentions in Slack App Messages

Currently the Instana Slack App shows the raw mention syntax of e.g. <@U03D3BYCD16>. This makes it necessary to open the Slack message thread in order to determine the actual user being mentioned. It would be helpful if the Instana integrati...
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations Delivered

Listen for Additional Slack Message Removal/Quarantine Events

Slack provides mechanisms for quarantining/hiding messages from the UI as part of their Data Loss Prevention system. This allows administrators to hide messages that are potentially sensitive in nature until they are reviewed, and released or dele...
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations Delivered

Use Real Name Instead of Slack Username with Slack App Integration

The Slack username field is deprecated, and not user editable. Slack has since switched to using real/display names which allow users to update them over time (e.g. name changes as part of marriage). Switching from username to real/display name wo...
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations Delivered

Instana OpenTelemetry Correlation for Pure OTel Scenarios

We have a pure OpenTelemetry setup where the OtelCollector directly exports data to the Instana SaaS backend, without any Instana Agent in between. Currently, entity correlation across layers like ApplicationPerspective > Service > Endpoint ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations Delivered

Integrate Instana with Slack using chat.postmessage API.

To integrate Instana with Slack, Instana documentation suggesting to have webhooks. But our environment does not support outbound webhooks and to post messages to a Slack channel we need to use chat.postmessage API. Could you please suggest workar...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations Delivered

Prevent Instana from Auto-Closing ServiceNow Incidents When They Are In-Progress

Description: Currently, Instana–ServiceNow integration automatically creates and closes incidents based on the lifecycle of Instana alerts. Behavior today: When an Instana event is triggered, an incident is successfully created in ServiceNow. When...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations Delivered

Grafana Instana Plugin dashboard features

We have integrated the Instana with Grafana for dashboarding and have observed that some of the below features are missing which will help in creating better dashboards for customers. 1) TopN - To show the top N Utilized nodes 2) Option to filter ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations Delivered

support for template variables

support for template variables in grafana
about 4 years ago in Instana / Integrations Delivered

Security Vulnerability Management

Hello, It is very important to have a unified security insights & compliance dashboard and vulnerability management capabilities consolidated within the Instana APM / Observability solution. Besides application performance monitoring and proac...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations / Security and Compliance Delivered