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Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Ability to create groups of users to be used for Sharing

Right now you have to select individual people to share a dashboard, report, view with. And if a new person starts on that team, you have to know or remember exactly what things you need to share with that new person. It would be great if there wa...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Other 1

Visibility Cloudability issues

We use business mappings to control the views. However if the business mappings are updated the effect is that users can no longer view the ticket/cloudability issue they have raised and hence tickets/cloudability issues can no longer be updated b...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Needs more information

There can be scorecard based widgets in Dashboards or ApptioBi which can be used for Reporting.

It will be a good resource for my customer. Using this they will be able to create something high-level reports which will be easily digestible by leadership teams
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Other 0 Future consideration

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 4 Future consideration

Customer configurable ticker / banner that can be displayed to inform users of service / known issues

In the event for example that an issue is discovered with a gap in data, or an anomoly, it would be useful for us to have the capability to type a message that would be displayed as a banner / ticker when customers logon.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Future consideration

Support for AI services on Cloudability Sustainability Reporting

As part of our GreenAI initiative, we would like to be able to report on sustainability metrics for AI-related services on all three major cloud providers (eg: Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI). This is not currently available, could yo...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Export analytics of calls and subcalls as image and as PDF-report

Provides complete information for ticketing systems without granting access to Instana. Enables communication with 3rd party vendors. Especially important to analyze calls with a large number of subcalls.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review