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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Tracing
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 3, 2025

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Customization of trace analytics columns

Right now when looking at traces in the Analytics page there's only 3 columns:  Service, Timestamp and Latency.  This idea is to be able to customize this list to include other attributes and thus modify the sort order.

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Smitha Soman
    Feb 4, 2026

    Hello,

    Thanks for sharing this idea — we want to make sure we fully understand the problem you’re trying to solve before exploring solutions.

    To help us evaluate this better, could you share a bit more context on:

    • Which additional attributes you’d want to add as columns in the Analytics (Traces) view?

    • What decisions or workflows this would improve for you (e.g. faster triage, comparison, reporting)?

    • Whether the main goal is custom sorting, better visibility, or reducing clicks/drilldowns?

    • Do you expect this customization to be persistent per user, or is it more ad-hoc?

    A quick example of a scenario where this would help (before/after) would also be really useful.
    Happy to jump on a short call as well if that’s easier.

    Regards

    Smitha

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