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User Interface

Drill down into the details for widgets

Currently No maximize view option available for charts in App perspective or mostly all widgets in Instana default dashboards. Client can see Latency spikes, erroneous calls in time series widgets, but to view the list of erroneous calls, or list ...
1 day ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Disk Alerts - Group by fs_mount in dashboard chart

Each hostname can have multiple mount points, while creating widget in the custom dashboard we are not able to group by fs_mount to display the disk mount percentage of each host. Withou tthis option, how do we know which mount i having a problem ...
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Iframe compatability for Home Dashboard

We want Instana Backend UI Home dashboard to be integrated as iFrame in our react application as a one stop application. Hence, we want iFrame compatability for the Home Dashboard that way for other than admins, the page can be added as iFrame.
15 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

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

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...
28 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...
28 days 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...
about 1 month 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.
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration