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User Interface

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

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

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...
6 months 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...
20 days 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...
20 days 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

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
over 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / 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 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 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
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration