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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Observability of AI
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 9, 2025

Improve Instana SaaS by supporting "User sessions query"

Dynatrace provides the User sessions query with SQL-like methods

It is a functionality to query and view various metrics in a table.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Dania Grave de Peralta
    Oct 8, 2025

    We will revisit the idea in the future because we see its value, but we will most probably not work on it during the next 12 months.

  • Admin
    John Wikoff
    Aug 26, 2025

    Can you give an example of a use case where you would employ this? The link you shared simply describes their DEM features which are quite analagous to Instana's. Instana can follow traces from individual user sessions, and unbound analytics allows those traces and metrics to be parsed out.