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Instana

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

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store Future consideration

Platform feature flags should be turned on by default (VMware, Power HMC, etc.)

The feature flags to enable capabilities like VMware, Power HMC, zHMC, SAP, etc. should be enabled by default. By not enabling these, we drive up our support costs and drive down customer satisfaction. Now, we do need to think about the best way t...
11 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

Improve Export Reports from Instana

Instana could be better if your reports has been simple. and let to integrate for example 1 2 or 3 ...N Lpar statitics in the same reporte CPU, ASP, Active Jobs, Subsistems, etc... because the current export reports are so simple, right now instan...
21 days ago in Instana / IBM i Future consideration

Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these request
about 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 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

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store Future consideration

Customize email mail body and subject in Instana notifications

Currently we are receiving different subject lines for Instana alerts. We would like to customize the subject and email body of email alerts sent by Instana. Can you please enable feature to add custom templates for mail alerts?
11 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

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