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Make Userid visible in "Top Processes" at the Host Dashboard or make it selectable/visible in Custom Dashbords for processes

Customer wants to see the running Userid of DB2 Instances. Actually it is hard to find out under which user the db2sysc Instances are running. You have to select all Processes and open the Process Dashboard. Customer need this information to easie...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Express JS Errors as a percentage of users or sessions

I would like to view the number of JS Errors as a percentage of users or sessions to better understand how many users are seeing an error. Using absolute numbers is susceptible to changes in traffic and during peak hours we would see an increase i...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Enhance analytic view with http class metric

As our dev/test/ops team analyze service trace/call info service request status it would be great to have optional metric http class as single stat in group view
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Add the ability to specifically filter traces by values of "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time

As stated in the title, having the possibility to group and filter by "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time would be extremely helpful to troubleshoot if the network got worse etc.
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Custom dashboard queries shows misleading retention information in case of approximation

We have example in custom dashboard were some panels with complex queries show approximation because of retention where the real reason is query time-out. Although we believe this is a flaw we were asked to raise feature request. So please conside...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 6 Under review

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Under review