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Expose System I/O Metrics for Alerting and Custom Events in Instana

Instana already shows System I/O metrics on the Host Dashboard (Calls/s, Reads/s, Writes/s, Logical Block Reads/Writes), but these metrics do not appear in the Metrics Selector when creating Custom Events or Alerting rules. We request that these e...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Allow visibility configs to use "is me"

We are segmenting most budgeting items in portfolios, however we want a higher granularity for example, if I am a member of a Solution Train, show me budgets budgets, but not budgets for other solution trains. we can do this in list views and repo...

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Support filter dependencies at Dashboard level

When Execs look at a dashboard and want to drill down they may not know the structure of all the teams. Filter Dependencies should apply to dashboard level so that people can quickly delve down with out having to remember which teams are part of w...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration

Kanban View States: ability to customize grouping of states

It would be helpful to have the ability to customize how states are displayed as columns in the Kanban view. Right now, the system automatically groups them based on process workflows. We would like the flexibility to categorize states or map them...

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
9 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Customize entity information on horizontal rows of Kanban

At the moment, it's not possible to customize the information displayed for horizontal rows on a Kanban board. We would like to have the ability to display the fields that are most useful for our users. For instance, as shown in the screenshot, we...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Allow hidden values on inactive teams to be seen by System Admin role

When a team is deactivated, fields like team iterations are hidden from all views. We have found that since they are hidden from lists and the entity detailed view, then it wasn't noticed that team iterations still existed which didn't allow the n...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration