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User Interface

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Mobile version for Instana UI

Dear Colleagues, our customer asks for Instana UI suitable for mobile browsers or mobile applications for Android/iOS. When administrators far from PC it would help to reduce overall MTTR when they see incident details and perform preliminary inve...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 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.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 4 Future consideration

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration

User/Idle Session timeout should make currently open page unreadable

This is to improve Instana Security Footprint. When Instana UI User/Idle Session timeout triggers, only a small red popup on top right is shown saying you need to reautenticate, but the currently open page is still readable , potenially exposing s...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control / User Interface 7

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Needs more information

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 2 Needs more information

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Show timevalue in single stat sparklines mouseover in Instana

In standard instana dashboards there are single stats sparklines. Hovering with mouse over these sparlines gives the value. It would be awesome to show also the datetime to shown value.Our UC is use e.g. standard home dashboard to see affects over...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add an Export button in UI to export metrics/analytics data to a CSV file

The requested feature is to have a button in the UI to allow exporting metrics or analytics from a dashboard into a CSV file or other types of consumable files. This is needed for any large organization to enable the creation of basic reports to d...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration