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User Interface

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 ...
6 days ago in Instana / User Interface 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.
20 days ago in Instana / User Interface 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...
27 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Need a way to disable the release marker popup dialog

The customer is adding release markers into the environment via Pipeline integration. They definitely want to see the release markers on the timeline. The problem is that every time there is a release, Instana pops up a dialog in the upper right c...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Instana Status Page Calendar Shows Resolved Incidents as Ongoing in Timeline View

The Instana public status page calendar (https://status.instana.io/calendar) displays historical incidents as if they are still ongoing in the Day/Week timeline view, even when those incidents are marked as Resolved or Closed. In the timeline visu...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Enable Top Lists to Display Aggregated Results from Graphs in Custom Dashboards

In Instana custom dashboards, we would like to have a feature that allows a Top List to display the maximum value calculated from data after applying the same aggregation logic as a line chart (e.g., averaging per time interval). Expected Behavior...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Display an information about upcomming maintenance in X days

It would be very helpful to be able to inform our users directly via the INSTANA GUI that maintenance is scheduled in x days. This notification could appear on the login screen, but ideally, it would be displayed across the top of all INSTANA pa...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

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...
3 months 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.
3 months 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...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration