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Status Under review
Workspace Instana
Categories Tracing
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 18, 2025

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Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of each component/service in the journey of a HTTP request.

Ability to be able to filter spans based on span names, self-time, network time and waiting time in Analytics view, as well as the ability to create the same in Custom Dashboards would help in creating accurate latency related dashboard views. The individual trace IDs when downloaded provides minSelfTime, duration etc, which is filter-able would make it easier to calculate the performance of each service.

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    Prashant Raj Singh
    Oct 29, 2025

    Hi Everyone

    Have you guys checked on our span filtering feature which has been released this Q. There is a similar feature which is coming for http in December/January which lets you filter http spans based on span attribute. Do check out the blog below

    https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/domenico-schettini-filho/2025/09/29/optimizing-jdbc-and-hc-observability-filtering-out


    this will surely help in filtering,and for analytics view and dashboarding I will assign this to someone who can help you with this

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