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User Interface

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Allow fields customisation on Events dashboard for sorting

Dear colleagues, our customer is actively using Events dashboard and would like to be able to sort events by severity of the events in a list. Please consider implementing the feature of customising fields and sorting by them. Thank you
about 10 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Include a combobox on AP, Service and Endpoint panel to move to another App, Service o Endpoint easily

Why ?: because returning to the list of Apps, Services or Endpoints is annoying Whose benefit ?: All users of Instana. Should work as a simple combobox with the links.
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Ability to have a "quick export" of configurations in Instana

It would be useful if we could have an option to "quickly" export configured perspectives/websites/events etc that we have set from Instana, maybe into a YAML/JSON/XML format, and then it can be imported again into an Instana interface. I think th...
4 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Mobile version for Instana UI

Dear Colleagues, our customer asks for Instana UI suitable for mobile browsers or mobile applications for Android/iOS. When administrators far from PC it would help to reduce overall MTTR when they see incident details and perform preliminary inve...
10 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

EUM Crash Reporting - programmatic creation of crash report configuration via Instana API

We need a way to programatically e.g. by calling the Instana api setup a new crash report configuration.We were told that instana api does not currently support this function
17 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Instana Dashboard Dark Mode

Our client has requested the addition of a dark mode feature to the Instana dashboard to improve usability and align with their needs. This feature would enhance accessibility for users with light sensitivity. It also reflects industry standards, ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Submitted

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
26 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

A possibility to have fixed Time Range in a specific Custom Dashboard

For example: in the whole Instana UI by default the Time Range is set to ‘Last Hour’ but for the specific dashboard created by myself I want to have it set for ‘Last Month’ and when I will open it, I won’t need to change anything - the ‘default’ C...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Go to next/previous windows timerange

Hello, currently in Instana, we can select a predefined timerange (last 30min, last 1h, yesterday, etc.) or we can customize the timerange with year, month, day, hour, minutes. Once we have this selected, there is no option to automaticaly go to n...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release