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Application perspectives

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provide release marker time and scope focus

Currently when choosing a release in time picker the time focus is set with span around release time but selected scope is kept. It would be very helpful to be able to select also release scope and being pointed to scoped monitoring, e.g. the chos...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 4 Not under consideration

Application Batch process Monitoring

Instana Application monitoring services are not reporting the data statistics as expected. Basically the service in question is a database one which is running on DB2 db. Whenever a batch execution happens there's a bunch of calls being made by th...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

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.
12 months 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...
12 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to increase retention for specific call/traces

Hello, it would be great if users could selectively extend retention beyond short term retention (currently set to default value of 7 days) of specific calls/traces e.g. by referencing calls/traces in analytic query. Other option would be to mark ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

On demand filters for monitoring data

We're using the Instana API to keep our configuration identical across multiple Instana backends that exist for our different production environemnts. To simplify our process and improve useability of the tooling, we'd be interested in the possibi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under 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

Remember selection time when creating short links in analytics when using presets

If you are using a relative time preset like last 1 hour e.g. and you wait for a while and then create a short link the time frame of the short link has moved by the time elapsed while you wait. This is confusing as using the short link then dlive...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists