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Metric Explorer for Instana

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

Improve Geography view to allow view by states

By allowing the customer to have region/provinces as a deep view, they can use it as data for marketing or increase the MTTR by mapping regional providers/services/laws affecting the availability of their services. Right now, the customers is expo...
12 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

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...
20 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

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

Improve Location Selection UX in Synthetic Test Creation

During hands-on usage of Synthetic test creation, users noted that the location selection flow is not fully intuitive.Currently, users must explicitly click the “Add locations” button before they can see or search available locations. A more natur...
20 days ago in Instana / User Interface Not under 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...
20 days 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...
27 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Add an option to export the list shown in the "Comparison Table" view of the Infrastructure tab

There is a need to export the list of hosts in the "Comparison Table". This support will be really handy when you have multiple hosts are defined in the system. Also, noticed that the default option shows 50 per page. If we select to show 100 per ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Needs more information

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 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Instana Backendをsystemd管理できるようにしたい

現在、当環境にてInstana Backendを利用しておりますが、運用性および可用性向上の観点から、systemdによるサービス管理を実現したいと考えております。 つきましては、Instana Backendをsystemdで管理可能とするための設定方法、もしくは公式に推奨される手順やベストプラクティスについてご教示いただけますでしょうか。
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Needs more information