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What’s needed: Root Cause Analysis is provided at the same time some delay is detected (applicable for Aurora MySQL & RDS).

[Ideal Analysis Function] What we’d like to request you is to add a function of analysis which is able to show the detection of some delay and its root cause at the same time (I.e. : root cause clarification at the same time of the delay detection...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 4 Not under 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

Third party library stack traces

Having the source map integrated into instana is very helpful, however sometimes, the stack trace is not that clear, because the stack trace reported is related to a third party library, and in this case the mapping is not very helpful
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Capability to forecast on metrics

Provide ability to forecast the outcome of any metric, including custom metrics, based on any context forecasts context (tag/label/etc.) and scale dynamically with infrastructure and applications. Similar capability to what competitors have: Datad...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

ISBANK want to see the consumers of any service or any queue

ISBANK want to see the consumers of any service or any queue especially on ibm mq
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common 6 Not under consideration

Add the tenant unit names in the short URLs

Currently, the short URL contains the base URL for all tenant units in the customer’s environment. The customer would like to configure different short URLs for different tenant units. Thanks.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Ability to switch between versions of API documentation

The customer would like to have an ability to switch between versions of API documentation: https://instana.github.io/openapi/. Currently, we are able to see only the latest version without any possibility to switch to any other version.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / API-C / Common 2 Not under consideration

Generate the automation script/curl command for the configuration changes on the Instana UI

Customer can make lot of changes using the web ui but most clients that follow DevOps process would like to automate this step and implement the change using some script/API. It would helpful if the UI could provide the curl command for the config...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Mobile browser compatible GUI

It would be very helpful if the alerts page had a mobile friendly view. When being paged, especially late at night, I’m generally trying to coordinate everything off of my phone while getting to my computer. Additionally, when dealing with after h...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Ability to have an "expand all" button for custom metrics

Customer is sending for each handheld mobile device (MDE) 2 StatsD metrics to Instana resulting in many "causes of problems" having to analyse each custom metric. It is easier to see if there is something going on when having the ability to open...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration