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Allow custom events be created for IBM MQ MFT Agent status

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Agent Status is not available as a metric to create a custom event. Out of the box events can't be adjusted per customers requriement. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Agent status when they are in...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 0 Future consideration

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement. Better value for "suggestion" field is highly desirable. It currently has so much undesired detail with line breaks unlike other alert "suggestion" field. Find actual alert paylod in a...
9 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Add an Export button in UI to export metrics/analytics data to a CSV file

The requested feature is to have a button in the UI to allow exporting metrics or analytics from a dashboard into a CSV file or other types of consumable files. This is needed for any large organization to enable the creation of basic reports to d...
9 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Show timevalue in single stat sparklines mouseover in Instana

In standard instana dashboards there are single stats sparklines. Hovering with mouse over these sparlines gives the value. It would be awesome to show also the datetime to shown value.Our UC is use e.g. standard home dashboard to see affects over...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 0 Future consideration

provide Folder organization for dashboards

Currently, when you have a large number of dashboards, they are all just listed (alphabetically at least) in a very large drop down listbox. It would be very useful if there was an alternative way to manage all of the dashboards using folders or s...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 1 Future consideration