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Infrastructure

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Custom dashboards: Copy a dataset or filter from one widget to another

Background and context When creating a dashboard it's often useful to re-use datasets or filters between different widgets. If it's the same widget, the duplicate widget functionality can be used, but there is no way to re-use a dataset or filter ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

When sharing a dashboard publicly, add the ability to add 'Groups' as editors as well as individuals

When sharing a dashboard in Instana, you can currently ONLY add individuals as editors. Within the Instana security model itself, you have the ability to assign users to groups via group mappings. It would be nice to be able to add a group as an e...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Technologies Reporting metrics

Technologies Reporting metrics like min, max and average on what bases they are pulling and if we want to see total data flowing to Instana backend per day which value we should consider (min, max or average) should we sum it? As mentioned in the...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see for Custom dashboard

In custom dashboard is there option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see the value for Custom dashboard as it would be helpful for SRE team to visualize the dashboard.
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 5 Future consideration

Ability to search by POD IP in dynamic focus

The use case is to identify the POD details from a Nginx downstream when it returns an error for no response from downstream service and it returns only IP of the downstream POD. However, unfortunately the current filtering with dynamic focus can ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Add Tabs and filter / group by options in custom dashboards

We 'd like to have Tab button and Collapse button to switch grouping and to expand more widgets in a custom Dashboard like applications (call count Http Status Code)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Add Weblogic Name in filter/group fields of custom dashboards

Today the only attribute related to Weblogic Servers (WLS) is the port. It's clearly not enough. Please include server name in the Dynamics Focus search, the filter and group fields in custom dashboards widgets.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration