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Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

filter Dependencies

On a "Capability Kanban" view we have several quick filters. the ones in question are: Portfolio, ART, PI. If a user selects a portfolio we want it to narrow down selection of ARTS to only ART in that portfolio. Then once an ART is selected we onl...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Cannot clone whole folders of views

We cannot clone whole folders of views. The cloning feature only allows you to copy individual views, not nested folders or dashboards with their widgets. The cloning feature doesn't support duplicating entire folders or dashboards with all their ...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Cannot remove yourself as owner of a view even if there is another owner assigned

Cannot remove yourself as owner of a view even if there is another owner assigned. Attaching the screenshot of the issue for better understanding.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Third level hierarchy of the left navigation is very limiting

Third level hierarchy of the left navigation is very limiting. Need more nested levels and a way to manage and move items quickly
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

AWS Fargate Agent for Nuxt.js Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports the following Fargate Collectors: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargateWe would be happy if you could add support for Nuxt.js as well.
7 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Need to see whether an IBM MQ trace is a Put or a Get

The customer is monitoring an application where the first transaction that is monitored is a PUT onto a Queue within IBM MQ. The customer is using the Instana User Exit and it is set to DEBUG mode to force the Exit to trace all transactions. Curre...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Multi-Entity Reporting and Filtering Capability

Currently, there is an inability to create in-platform reports within TargetProcess that have more than 1 entity in its source data, as entity specific filtering in the report data fields is not allowed. The ability to create reports that utilize ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Clickable link to objects based on formula of the user next to standard clickable links

Today for a standard set of ids to objects a clickable link to the concerned object is already available. It would be useful to extend this possibility also towards other objects for which the user has obtained the id in a formula.
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration