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User Interface

Add an option to export the list shown in the "Comparison Table" view of the Infrastructure tab

There is a need to export the list of hosts in the "Comparison Table". This support will be really handy when you have multiple hosts are defined in the system. Also, noticed that the default option shows 50 per page. If we select to show 100 per ...
6 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

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

Instana Backendをsystemd管理できるようにしたい

現在、当環境にてInstana Backendを利用しておりますが、運用性および可用性向上の観点から、systemdによるサービス管理を実現したいと考えております。 つきましては、Instana Backendをsystemdで管理可能とするための設定方法、もしくは公式に推奨される手順やベストプラクティスについてご教示いただけますでしょうか。
12 days ago in Instana / User Interface Needs more information

Keep the column headers when scrolling data

When viewing the Infrastructure | Comparison table, the column headers disappear as you scroll down the data. It will gret if the column headers are kept. This same pattern needs to happen in other UI flows also.
14 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Top List Widget issue - no data

An issue has been observed with displaying of the top list 50 widget. We are testing a self-hosted backend version 297, deployed in a k8s. With identical filter parameters but with the top list 20 value, the widget renders correctly. According to ...
26 days ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Improve Transparency of Built‑in Event Evaluation Logic

Problem Users cannot clearly determine: Difference between “fraction of requests” vs “all requests” Whether multiple thresholds are evaluated with AND vs OR Full evaluation logic behind built‑in events Requested Enhancement Explicit evaluation log...
29 days ago in Instana / User Interface Not under consideration

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

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