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Application perspectives

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Add Release marker end timestamp

I can create and update a release marker and it has a timestamp for start and last-updated. Is it possible to express a time range, to show up a long deployment? At the moment, our pipelines create a release marker, after all pods in a rolling upd...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

mapping js errors for backend

Actually, the source mapping is done only on front end errors It could be intertesting to have this mapping available also on the stack traces for backend side, since we have transpilation process between javascript and typescript
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Node / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.

TS014338255: NodeJS App: Stacktrace: Queries are getting trimmed at random. Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboard for application perspective grouping custom prometheus metrics

Up to v257 on-prem it is not possible to create custom dashoard widget panel under an application perspective for (prometheus) custom metrics (only standard metrics like calls, latency or errorneous).We want to to create custom dashboards over cus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Analytics with large time span reduce available most recent traces

We found that the result set of traces is dependent on the time window used. Example if you use window of last 5 minutes you will get most recent traces , but if you set the a window of 7 days you won't see most recent traces and latest traces bei...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Mark "downstream" services accordingly and filter them in the dashboard

Once you select "Automatically include Downstream Services in Applications" it would be interesting to: (1) See the "downstream services" marked as such in the "services" list and dependancy map etc. (2) Have an ability to turn on/off the downstr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Mapping for AWS Aurora/RDS instances

Currently we are facing the issue that for ex. AWS Aurora MySQL databases the infrastructure node is not mapped to the corresponding service in Instana. In the application perspective we can see the traces to this database instance. However, on th...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Change the data return policy of application metrics

We noticed that application metrics for applications that are rarely called are not representative after 32 days. So in this case, we would like Instana to give us average data per time slot (even if it means losing time granularity, but not going...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Show Context Menu when right click in time chart

Thanks for providing the great feature "Download a time chart as a CSV file"! https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=saas-build-265#download-a-time-chart-as-a-csv-file I used this feature, and it's a very nice feature, but...
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration