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Auto-refresh Report on Page Refresh or every 1 minute

We recommend implementing an auto-refresh feature for the reports, either on page load or every minute. This is especially beneficial for scenarios where actions are completed in under a minute, and users expect to see real-time updates reflected ...
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Allow to alert only on new, unique errors

For front-end browser errors in particular, it would be very helpful to receive alerts for new errors, which are unique based on their error message and source code position. Instana already contains the concept of unique JavaScript errors based o...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Indicate the reason for alert (e.g. instana-builtin, instana-custom-rule, etc.)

When an alert is fired, we never know its source. Would be great to have in the Alert itself an information of where it's coming from (smart alert, builtin, custom event, etc.)
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Product Enhancement Request - Embed Report in a page

Provide capability to surface an outside report (e.g. PowerBI) within a page of TargetProcess.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Needs more information

Consolidation of Notification Capabilities in Automation Rules

Currently there are 3 ways to create notifications in TP: 1) The notification settings for each entity via Process settings 2) The notification rules capability 3) @mentions in comments Number 3 is the only one available from Automation rules and...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Global Smart Alert to have ability to filter by error message and endpoint name for adaptive threshold type.

Once we create global smart alerts for application perspective dashboard we have option to select filter (end point name or error message) for static threshold based alerts we are looking similar functionality for adaptive threshold based global S...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Anomaly detection on issues

When an unusual amount of issues have occured (for an entity) it would be good to assure this boils up somehow. I.e. if CPU usage or memory exhaustion happens more frequently than usual (on a host) the user should be able to be informed pro-active...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Edit the evaluation granularity for a smart alert

The minimum evaluation granularity for a smart alert is limited at 5 mins, We need to change it so that we get alerts related to slow calls etc which may not persist for more than 5 minutes. Below is a real time scenario. When will a person be ale...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Focus Option for Folders

I appreciate the improved search functionality and its clear results display. I frequently use it when concentrating on specific tasks and associated views. However, as a Targetprocess administrator, my left-hand menu becomes cluttered. Adding a "...
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review