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Improved functionality -Scheduling maintenance windows

The maintenance windows, but what happens when the window is active, is that the notifications are not sent through the alert channels that we have implemented, e.g.: no notification is sent through Teams or events to Service Now, however the even...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

All tables should be able to be sorted, filtered, shared and exportable to csv

Since there is not a way to inject custom fields/values such as a note that a specific agent, event, smart alert is a work in progress, or associated to a specific project task or incident response, we have to be able to create order listing of th...
9 months ago in Instana / Common 2

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls.

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls, so that we can export the data of certain duration & see how many calls, errors & latency was there for multiple applications. This would be useful while analyzing the applications performanc...
9 months ago in Instana / Common 0 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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
9 months ago in Instana / Common 6 Functionality already exists

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 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...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Export data from Custom Dashboards

We are using Custom Dashboards to track and improve our metrics, thanks to custom metrics. But because of 7 days retention, it is not possible to track with historical data. The only way we can manage to find is to semi automate the process with t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 2 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard Thresholds

Can you add the definition of the different levels of thresholds to the widgets. In example , three levels (green, yellow and red) which will change the color relative of the passing thresholds. Chart Time Series, Big Number.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common 0

Improve the usability of the search textbox

improve the usability of the search text box.1. its position is confusing (where is search box!?)2. the filter selection select box is mistaken for the search text box.3. I have to press the magnifying glass icon to search (I want to input search ...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration