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Include date fields in the Bulk Edit screen

It is possible to edit fields in bulk in TargetProcess by selecting multiple entities (shift-click) and hitting "Edit 00 items". However, date fields (like Planned Start Date) are not editable through this screen. The date fields should be editabl...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Future consideration

Left Panel Tornado: option to filter on Favorites

When searching for a view in the left menu, it would be helpful to have a filter checkbox to narrow down the results to "Favorites".
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Future consideration

Dynamic Tag support for process environment variables in actions needed

Hi, We use Webhooks to trigger events in our central alerting console. The messages are then routed to the appropriate team/workflow based on tags which are delivered as environment variables with the process. Currently those environment variables...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Include Process Details in Email/Msteams Alert

1. Currently, in Instana, the alerts we receive via email or Teams do not include information about which process is consuming high CPU. However, when we check the event details within the Instana UI, the specific process name is available. 2. It ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Define which entities can be added from main "add button" in left menu

I would like to be able to narrow down the list of entities that can be created from the add button in the left menu of Targetprocess. For instance we don't want to let users create time records from this menu, because they should only be created ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Future consideration

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Conditional fields in Quick Add form

We are using features in Targetprocess and depending on the region where a feature is created, we need to have different fields to be filled in the Quick Add form. On the one hand we want to show/hide fields based on certain conditions and on the ...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Extended organization of favorites with folders

It would be useful to give users the possibility to organize their favorites also with folders so they can more logically group favorites in function of their use/need. It would also be interesting to allow those folders then to be shared. This m...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration