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Instana

Enhance Dashboard Table Widget to Support Application Perspectives, Services, and Endpoints

The current Table Widget (Public Preview) supports infrastructure and platform entities but does not support displaying application-level entities such as services, endpoints, or application perspectives. Customers frequently want to create operat...
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Drill down into the details for widgets

Currently No maximize view option available for charts in App perspective or mostly all widgets in Instana default dashboards. Client can see Latency spikes, erroneous calls in time series widgets, but to view the list of erroneous calls, or list ...
8 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Native Instance, Version, Status and Uptime Keywords per Sensor

## Problem statement Key instance metadata — **name**, **version**, **status** and **uptime** — is available in Instana only as a snapshot on each individual sensor page. None of these fields are exposed as Dynamic Focus keywords, which means they...
9 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Iframe compatability for Home Dashboard

We want Instana Backend UI Home dashboard to be integrated as iFrame in our react application as a one stop application. Hence, we want iFrame compatability for the Home Dashboard that way for other than admins, the page can be added as iFrame.
22 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

User should be able to see the entities explicitly tagged to a instana team

When part of a team, users should be able to use the filter function to search for specific team tag. If an entity/dashboard/AP has been tagged to a team, that team tag should be searchable in the UI to show the entities associated to that team. T...
23 days ago in Instana / Access Control Future consideration

Add capability to "group-by" on multiple fields when creating a pie chart widget with queries to "Application" -> "Calls"

We are trying to migrate our old Datadog dashboards to Instana and the queries need this feature to migrate fully.We have queries which need group-by filters on multiple columns. Right now the widgets have capability to add only one group-by filte...
29 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Must-Gather tools required for the Instana Agent

The Tiger Team is working with support an others on a tool called Tiger-Optics that is using AI to analyze Must-Gather data from customers to help accelerate problem diagnostics. So far we have done work to process data for the backend. This is pa...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Future consideration

Introduce Team-Level Administrator Role for Delegated Team Management

Problem Statement Instana currently provides team management capabilities only through administrative permissions that apply across all teams. Organizations with many application teams often want to delegate ownership and maintenance of specific t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Allow Saving Filters and Analytics When Using Scoped or Contextual Views

Problem Statement Users are currently unable to save certain filters and analytics configurations when working within scoped or contextual views. During investigation, support indicated that the current behavior is not supported and recommended su...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Add team association to Automation actions

While using tags and setting the matching tags in team scope to limit access of users to Automated actions, HSBC would like to have the same direct team association available.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Automation Future consideration