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Instana Personalizes the APM Experience with New Application Perspectives Capabilities

Flexible, Continuous, and Ad-hoc, Application Perspectives Personalizes Monitoring Viewpoints Tailored to Specific Needs of Any Devops Stakeholder

Instana announced a set of customization features across their solution, creating a Personalized APM experience for users.

The new capabilities, called Application Perspectives, go beyond traditional custom dashboarding to deliver the first automated personal guided APM experience.

“APM tools historically have been designed for experts and only used by a few highly skilled engineers on the ops team. Instana’s Application Perspectives isn’t just a new function or feature. It’s a set of capabilities across the Instana solution that allow any Ops user to create tailored personal views of services, service maps and trace analytics,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “Instana’s personalized APM experience makes performance data available to the whole devops organization, with each team getting the exact visualization and information they need to optimize the microservices they’re responsible for.”

Instana’s new Application Perspectives includes the ability to define ad-hoc groupings of services for any reason. Any newly created Application Perspective is immediately available to every member of the team.

Actionable performance information is then presented automatically in a unique view for each Application Perspective upon definition. Users can set custom filters as needed, pre-tag their respective services, or use pre-set dashboards for optimizing performance and quality. Personalized views then automatically stay aligned to the changing tech stack so teams never have to rebuild their dashboards.

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Instana Personalizes the APM Experience with New Application Perspectives Capabilities

Flexible, Continuous, and Ad-hoc, Application Perspectives Personalizes Monitoring Viewpoints Tailored to Specific Needs of Any Devops Stakeholder

Instana announced a set of customization features across their solution, creating a Personalized APM experience for users.

The new capabilities, called Application Perspectives, go beyond traditional custom dashboarding to deliver the first automated personal guided APM experience.

“APM tools historically have been designed for experts and only used by a few highly skilled engineers on the ops team. Instana’s Application Perspectives isn’t just a new function or feature. It’s a set of capabilities across the Instana solution that allow any Ops user to create tailored personal views of services, service maps and trace analytics,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “Instana’s personalized APM experience makes performance data available to the whole devops organization, with each team getting the exact visualization and information they need to optimize the microservices they’re responsible for.”

Instana’s new Application Perspectives includes the ability to define ad-hoc groupings of services for any reason. Any newly created Application Perspective is immediately available to every member of the team.

Actionable performance information is then presented automatically in a unique view for each Application Perspective upon definition. Users can set custom filters as needed, pre-tag their respective services, or use pre-set dashboards for optimizing performance and quality. Personalized views then automatically stay aligned to the changing tech stack so teams never have to rebuild their dashboards.

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According to Gartner, Inc. the following six trends will shape the future of cloud over the next four years, ultimately resulting in new ways of working that are digital in nature and transformative in impact ...

2020 was the equivalent of a wedding with a top-shelf open bar. As businesses scrambled to adjust to remote work, digital transformation accelerated at breakneck speed. New software categories emerged overnight. Tech stacks ballooned with all sorts of SaaS apps solving ALL the problems — often with little oversight or long-term integration planning, and yes frequently a lot of duplicated functionality ... But now the music's faded. The lights are on. Everyone from the CIO to the CFO is checking the bill. Welcome to the Great SaaS Hangover ...

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Overall outage frequency and the general level of reported severity continue to decline, according to the Outage Analysis 2025 from Uptime Institute. However, cyber security incidents are on the rise and often have severe, lasting impacts ...

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Regardless of their scale, business decisions often take time, effort, and a lot of back-and-forth discussion to reach any sort of actionable conclusion ... Any means of streamlining this process and getting from complex problems to optimal solutions more efficiently and reliably is key. How can organizations optimize their decision-making to save time and reduce excess effort from those involved? ...

As enterprises accelerate their cloud adoption strategies, CIOs are routinely exceeding their cloud budgets — a concern that's about to face additional pressure from an unexpected direction: uncertainty over semiconductor tariffs. The CIO Cloud Trends Survey & Report from Azul reveals the extent continued cloud investment despite cost overruns, and how organizations are attempting to bring spending under control ...

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