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User Interface

Instana Dashboard flexibility

Not all metrics available in all dashboard widgets. Dashboard customization is restricted and cannot fully combine business, application, infrastructure and log data in one view. This is critical for the executives to view all in one place.
6 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Instana Filter Inconsistent

IT will help on filtering for important objects, and also having everything grouped in one category would make it clearer and esaier for users to find.
25 days 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...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Layered widgets in dashboarding

Dashboards where one can layer the widgets, and also resize as needed to fit anywhere.Bring to front/ Move to back and all that good stuff :). Appdynamics has it right in this regard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbPvtcb9dGM
19 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
over 1 year ago in Instana / User Interface

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...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
10 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

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.
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review