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Time-rage per widget

All widgets in Instana's custom dashboard follow the same time-rage (from the top right corner of the UI). This idea is for each widget to be able to override this time range.
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Provide all Top-List options in Table "[Application(traces&calls), business metrics, business process...]" for custom dashboards

Hi Team, In the custom dashboard, 1. Add Widget - Currently in the "Table" type of customer dashboard, the datastore dropdown has only 3 values as below. "Events" "Infrastructure & Platforms" "Kubernetes Events" 2. We want to have all dropdown...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Need ability to view which entities/processes/application/containers are consuming from the Pod's Mem/CPU Usage

Hi Team, Application is crashing due to increased memory. Want to view in Instana UI, where actual application memory and CPU is getting used. Example: Allocated memory for application is 6Gi, and 12 CPU. These usages want to see in instana UI Tha...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Feature Request: Saved Time Ranges

We would like to request a new feature: the ability to save and name custom time ranges. Currently, when we investigate an incident, we have to manually re-select the exact time frame every time. It is also difficult to share this specific time wi...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Enable Export of Events Tab Data to CSV or Provide API Query Builder

Instana's Events tab provides valuable insights into application and infrastructure behavior, but currently lacks a straightforward way to export this data for external analysis. I propose adding one or both of the following features: CSV Export...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Add possibility of creating public dashboard and exposing it without authentication

Hello Colleagues, we have a second request, please consider adding a functionality of creating a public dashboard with it's exposure without authentication. Thank you
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboard with more customization abilities

A customer is Hong Kong built their own custom dashboard on Instana. They request for the ability to edit the custom Dashboard's font size, bold, underline, color etc to facilitate their needs.
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to send out reports in PDF/CSV by email

Dear Colleagues, we have a tender where customer is interested in sending regular reports from Instana to management with statuses and current numbers. We have ability to create custom dachboards and generate PDF/CSV of them, please consider addin...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration