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

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

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...
about 17 hours 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

Secured PAN data in SOAP Request

The Secured PAN data is getting captured in the Instana UI Analytics page which is part of SOAP XML Request.
28 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

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

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

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