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Events - Event table should have the affected entity name

In the events-event table, with the title, on, started, end, timeline, state, the entity name is not present or sortable on the entity to determine if the events are focused on affected population. The on column should include the entity name not ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Not under 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Needs more information

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
2 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Custom Dashboard

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.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0

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 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
9 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration