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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...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

I want the default display when a user accesses the Team configuration which I configured

Currently, Instana allows you to restrict the screen visibility of users based on the settings assigned to a "Team." For example, you can display only specified apps, such as the Application Perspective. However, the current default behavior is th...
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Events without RCA

Please clarify under which conditions Instana is able to determine the RCA for an incident. We are seeing similar alerts, some with RCA, and some without.
9 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Multiple Tags at Object Level

Can IBM please add the option to allow multiple Tags to be associated with Objects at an Object level not Agent level, for example MQ Queue Managers / Ace Integration Servers . This is required on a large enterprise to allow custom dashboards to e...
16 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Submitted

Naming vSphere datacenters in Instana

Customer is monitoring the vSphere datacenters in Instana. All the vSphere datacenters are reporting with same name in Instana, which leads to customer NOT able to monitor properly or confused between the vSphere datacenters. Is there any feasibil...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Time-rage per widget

All widgets in Instana's custom dashboard follow the same time-rage (from the top right corner of the UI). This idea is for each widget to be able to override this time range.
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Provide all Top-List options in Table "[Application(traces&calls), business metrics, business process...]" for custom dashboards

Hi Team, In the custom dashboard, 1. Add Widget - Currently in the "Table" type of customer dashboard, the datastore dropdown has only 3 values as below. "Events" "Infrastructure & Platforms" "Kubernetes Events" 2. We want to have all dropdown...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Native cost allocation and chargeback by OpenShift namespace annotations and per‑agent ingest keys

SummaryWe need Instana to natively attribute and report usage to internal cost centers so we can fairly recharge costs. Our workloads run on shared OpenShift clusters; every namespace has annotations for cost center and application ID. A small num...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Need ability to view which entities/processes/application/containers are consuming from the Pod's Mem/CPU Usage

Hi Team, Application is crashing due to increased memory. Want to view in Instana UI, where actual application memory and CPU is getting used. Example: Allocated memory for application is 6Gi, and 12 CPU. These usages want to see in instana UI Tha...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Feature Request: Saved Time Ranges

We would like to request a new feature: the ability to save and name custom time ranges. Currently, when we investigate an incident, we have to manually re-select the exact time frame every time. It is also difficult to share this specific time wi...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration