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Instana UI - show change history of instana configuration changes in the gui

We are running enterprise monitoring with instana. Changes to instana configuration such as creation or change to application perspectives, alerts, maintenance windows etc. should displayed to users (eg. as already possible with button history for...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Get uptime report from Applications on Instana

We have configured Instana to monitor our applications and we would like to report on performance of the application i.e. CPU utilization memory, Disk IO and the overal uptime for the application, how can we get such a report from Instana or the A...
12 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Hi IBM , need to enhance in Instana that able to export the analytics applications call into csv .

it is useful for sort the data using excel , not copy paste one by one.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Budgets & Forecasts

Need to have a global overview and detailed per view: · Consumed (since the beginning of the fiscal year) · Budget (by fiscal year) · Forecasts (at the end of the fiscal year) Budgets are not shared in the interface but managed user by user except...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Alerting

Each user has to create his own alerts. There is no possibility to create default alerts. Need to be able to create specific alerts for rightsizing / budget / forecast to a group / a predefined list linked to a view A single point of configuration...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Add Cross-Cloud Data Transfer Costs in Workload Planning

In Workload Planning, it would be highly beneficial for customers to have visibility into cross-cloud data transfer costs. For example, if a workload operates across both AWS and Azure, the associated data transfer costs between these clouds shoul...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration