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Dashboard threshold and Y-Axis label

Currently the charts are miss understandable because of the missing y-axis label and the missing possibility to paint a simple line Threshold Line Make it possible to add a line or two in the charts to visualize good an not so good values. Maybe a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / User Interface 1

Call topology diagrams between applications

Dear colleagues, Customer asks for applications dependency diagrams that would have additional options to show connections to other defined applications perspectives (excluding "All Services"). Currently there is only option to show the connection...
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
10 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Planned for future release

Let the license expiration notice be seen only by admins

Each year, as the license renewing period approaches, our users are worried about the notice "Licence expires in xx days". We would like this reminder to be seen only by the Instana administrators, to avoid unnecessary worries on the users' side.
11 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Needs more information

Time data needed at the call details panel

It is not easy to know the starting time and the latency for calls, when the timeline is not shown in the analyzer, i.e., for big traces. My proposal is to show, in the call details panel, at what time the call started and which was its latency. T...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

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 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically Include % 5XX or 4XX Count in Smart Alerts

Hi Team, I need to include below information dynamically in smart Alarming . Impacted country code which want to publish on mail. % of failure and failure count for impacted API name So request you to please include all the above information shoul...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Instana API: Inclusion of Synthetic Trace Calls in Instana API Query for Analyze Trace

Dear IBM Instana Team, Our team frequently utilizes the Instana API to retrieve in-depth alarming details by closely scrutinizing trace details. This has significantly aided our performance analysis and error identification efforts. However, we ha...
over 2 years ago in Instana / API-C / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release