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Show current time zone when setting Maintenance Windows

When configuring a Maintenance window in the "Change maintenance window" screen. There is a message under item 3: All dates and times are in "UTC". You can change this to local time in the User settings > General user interface settings It woul...
20 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Metric Explorer for Instana

Elevance Health has this capability in the Broadcom Wily tool and it was very convenient. It is lacking in Instana.
26 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

DIsplay "child" items of alerts/issues in UI - show all issues within one application

Hi, When looking at the summary dashboard of an Apllication Perspective where a smart alert is configured and that alert is actually triggered for a specfic service or endpoint the summary will state a green issues box with NO ISSUES. For us a cap...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Improve UI Flexibility and Initial Navigation : Enhance usability by allowing column resizing and improving default navigation and discoverability.

Some UI elements limit visibility and efficiency: Table columns cannot be resized Certain data requires extra clicks to confirm Initial filter and navigation options may not be intuitive for first-time users Adding basic UI flexibility would impro...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Provide Rich Out‑of‑the‑Box Dashboard Templates

Provide official, reusable dashboard templates by integration and use case to accelerate initial adoption and daily operations. Based on hands-on evaluation feedback from real usage scenarios, users indicated that dashboard creation often requires...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Limit visibility of Filters

Using Filters in Instana to create queries is open to any user no matter what team they belong to. It would be better if controls / visibility can be put on them. We have various Teams set up in Instana and the filters are available to be viewed a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Capability to not limit the charts grouping output to max 50 items

Following up on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ00000AoBsAQAV/charts-grouping-limiting-the-output-to-max-50-items?language=en_US Currently, when trying to view the nodes from one cluster only (so for sure there will be less than 10k of t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Custom Dashboard - Show Data labels in Pie Chart

We use Instana extensively across our enterprise and have been building custom dashboards with pie charts for various reporting needs. While analyzing the data, we noticed that the pie‑chart tooltip displays only the percentage value without the c...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Allow for time buckets on dashboards

When aggregating metrics over periods of time, Instana automatically adjusts and adds or averages metrics over different time buckets (for instance, for 1 hour, it groups in 1-minute, if we take 2 hours, 5-minute buckets, etc.)... If one could cho...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Provide a way to cleanup unwanted tags for otel

Hello, We noticed that otel dynamic tags when they reach a hard limit of 500, blocks the filtering of new tags. If there is a way to delete tags which are obselete then this gives more control to the user. Another idea is to set priority to the ta...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

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