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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...
1 day ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Alert Resend Interval / Alerting Frequency be configured in seconds for Instana Events

We are currently configuring alert notifications for Instana Events. We noticed that when an issue/event remains active, we can configure a periodic check to resend the alert notification. However, the minimum granularity for this re-trigger/resen...
10 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Remove the 10 Application Perspective Limit When Creating Standard Alerts

Problem Statement When creating a standard (non-smart) alert in Instana, users are limited to selecting a maximum of 10 application perspectives through the user interface. This limitation creates operational challenges for organizations that mana...
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Expose Event ID Directly in the Instana UI and Event APIs

Problem Statement When investigating events in Instana, the Event ID is not readily visible within the event details displayed in the user interface. Currently, users must extract the Event ID from the URL when viewing a specific event. This creat...
7 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...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Improve filtering options in Custom Dashboard tables

Custom Dashboard tables in Instana have limited filtering capabilities. They do not support wildcards, short string searches (e.g., 2‑character suffixes), or basic operators like contains, starts with, or ends with.For use cases such as Oracle Gol...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Enable Accurate (Non-Bucket-Aligned) Data Retrieval Mode for Analytics and Custom Dashboards

We request the introduction of a configurable option in Instana to allow accurate data retrieval strictly aligned with user-defined time filters, without internal bucket alignment, rounding, or visualization-driven aggregation adjustments. Current...
30 days ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

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...
5 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

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