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OS filters in mobile app in dashboard

- For Android, we have the list of device type. So it's impossible to filter by the version of Android (Android 14, Android 15, ...). - For iOS, we have only iOS or iPadOS. So it's impossible to filter by the version (iOS 15, 16, 17, ...).
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

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

Exporting the list of agents including FQDN and related informaiton

1. How to export all agents, host FQDN, agent version and related informaiton using GUI? 2.Is there a API that I can use to export the Agent version, FQDN, agent-status into a file
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to events/alerts/etc

Would like the ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to event/alerts. This would allow us to add more Application Perspective's to one alert instead of creating multiple of the same alert to cover the Application Perspective's that...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
11 months ago in Instana / Common 6 Functionality already exists

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Instana observabiltiy console - grant access to specific vSphere Datacenter

We monitoring multiple vSphere Datacenters, but we would like have option to grant access to view them separtely, same like for Kubernetes view
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration