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Application perspectives

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Consideration of Table View for OTel Attribute Display

A customer has suggested shifting from the current JSON view to a table view for displaying attributes in OTel, citing issues with key visibility in small browser windows. While the JSON format currently handles long resource attributes more effec...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

Add time shift comparison on a weekly base

Update: I've just seen this is already implented :) Dear Instana Devs and POs, We really like the newly introduced "Time Shift" feature of Instana. However, for our use cases, the options "Previous Timeframe" and "Yesterday" are often not sufficie...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

Test Powershell support for Actions Beta

We have been told that Powershell should in theory work on windows hosts for the actions beta, but it's unclear how thoroughly this has been tested.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

Change the fix in Release 227 that show a message "Widget is not supported in Live Mode"

Release 227 include a fix (?) to disable the information and show a message in some AP widgets (Top Services, Top Endpoints, Processing Time) when live mode is enabled. The fix is annoying because we loose the visibility over those rankings and me...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Delivered