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UI Enhancements

Is there any plan to have better support for text wrapping? Is there any plan for better sizing of card elements in a dashboard view? Text placed on a card should auto size based on the number of characters etc.
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Needs more information

Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Create application map (Business App) based on Accounts

Customer is splitting their apps in different MS Azure Subscriptions. These MS Azure Subscriptions are visible in Turbonpomic as Accounts.To create an application map based on the resources in an account, currently each entity type (vm, disk, db, ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Show alerts using Mobile App

Options to view Instana Alerts using a Mobile App
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 1 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...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Other 1

Option to group variables on Dashboards - Device Group + Object Group

There are cases where we would like a Device Group (Grouped on location basis), would like to be combined (a AND condition), with a object Group (having a subset of interested objects), which can help filter to see only those critical / interested...
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Dashboards need to be easy to configure and add more applets

OOB dashboard configuration is not enough to handle or present all requirements need to add more applets and can be filtered based to certain text for example
5 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration