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

Metric Explorer for Instana

Elevance Health has this capability in the Broadcom Wily tool and it was very convenient. It is lacking in Instana.
about 12 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

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

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

Limit visibility of Filters

Using Filters in Instana to create queries is open to any user no matter what team they belong to. It would be better if controls / visibility can be put on them. We have various Teams set up in Instana and the filters are available to be viewed a...
23 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

DIsplay "child" items of alerts/issues in UI - show all issues within one application

Hi, When looking at the summary dashboard of an Apllication Perspective where a smart alert is configured and that alert is actually triggered for a specfic service or endpoint the summary will state a green issues box with NO ISSUES. For us a cap...
16 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Improve UI Flexibility and Initial Navigation : Enhance usability by allowing column resizing and improving default navigation and discoverability.

Some UI elements limit visibility and efficiency: Table columns cannot be resized Certain data requires extra clicks to confirm Initial filter and navigation options may not be intuitive for first-time users Adding basic UI flexibility would impro...
16 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Improve Location Selection UX in Synthetic Test Creation

During hands-on usage of Synthetic test creation, users noted that the location selection flow is not fully intuitive.Currently, users must explicitly click the “Add locations” button before they can see or search available locations. A more natur...
16 days ago in Instana / User Interface Not under consideration

Provide Rich Out‑of‑the‑Box Dashboard Templates

Provide official, reusable dashboard templates by integration and use case to accelerate initial adoption and daily operations. Based on hands-on evaluation feedback from real usage scenarios, users indicated that dashboard creation often requires...
16 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

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