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User Interface

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Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instans custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Improve the usability of the search textbox

improve the usability of the search text box.1. its position is confusing (where is search box!?)2. the filter selection select box is mistaken for the search text box.3. I have to press the magnifying glass icon to search (I want to input search ...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

switch the data in custom dashboards by a specific value (e.g. Namespace)

We are using Instana to monitor our environment where systems are deployed per Namespace on OpenShift.We have a custom dashboard with the same content that summarizes the time series and scores for each Namespace.If we had the ability to switch da...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1

Environment label

Hi, We use different Instana backends in our organisation. Each Instana backend is responsible for an environment (DEV/ACC/PRD). It would be nice that we can add an indication of the environment (a label for example) in the top banner of Instana. ...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Planned for future release

Dashboard threshold and Y-Axis label

Currently the charts are miss understandable because of the missing y-axis label and the missing possibility to paint a simple line Threshold Line Make it possible to add a line or two in the charts to visualize good an not so good values. Maybe a...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / User Interface 1

Provide Customers the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget

Customer would like the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget. For example, one need for this would be for the Customer to set the country to "Oman" and also set the User ID to a ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 2 Planned for future release

Single Unified Dashboard and Management for Multiple customers

for MSP like us, it is important to have a single dashboard and management pane of Instana for ease of administration, unlike today where each customer has a different URL and support engineers end up logging into different URL for supporting client.
9 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications / User Interface 2 Future consideration

To add custom time range in a 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
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Export and Import custom dashboard data

Hi team, Custom dashboards are becoming more popular with our internal and external customers, and one of the current needs is able to export and import custom dashboard data. For example, we have a bunch of JSON files and to import them we need t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration