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Prometheus complex queries in Custom Dashboards

Hi team, I want to use Prometheus complex queries in widgets, something like this: sum( avg(container_cpu_allocation) by (pod,node) * on (node) group_left() avg(avg_over_time(node_cpu_hourly_cost[10m])) by (node) * on (pod) group_left() label_repl...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Prior notice is required for releases with screen changes

If the release involves screen changes, Instana users must be notified, educated on user operation, and procedures must be changed. Please share the change information before the screen is actually changed. It is fine to simply have release notes ...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 4 Not under consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Export data from Custom Dashboards

We are using Custom Dashboards to track and improve our metrics, thanks to custom metrics. But because of 7 days retention, it is not possible to track with historical data. The only way we can manage to find is to semi automate the process with t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Add option for aggregation function (avg, max) for custom metrics

Hello, Can you please add an option to chose aggregation function when displaying custom metrics? In attached example you can see that metrics are collected every 1 second but when you choose larger time interval then instana automatically aggrega...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Under review

Custom Dashboard Thresholds

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.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 0

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1