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Time-based activation of Events / Alerts (e.g. active only 07:00–20:00)

Currently, it is not possible to define time-based activation directly on Events (e.g. Smart Alerts or Custom Events), such as limiting them to business hours from 07:00 to 20:00. For many use cases—such as business services, non-critical systems,...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Alert on changes to Vulnerability exposures

Please allow for the ability to alert on changes in risk posture and exposures / impact of applications as vulnerability data is surfaced within Instana. The goal of such alerting would be to allow for quicker prioritization of remediation and fix...
30 days ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 0 Submitted

Alert to detect AZ wide failure in public cloud

When the node failure occurs, we can set "Host Availability" alert. When the az wide spread failure occurs, lots of this "Host Availability" alert will be generated at the similar timing. But to identify that failure is az / region wide more clear...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Ability to montior the agent mode changes due to separation of duties

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for enhanced **agent mode monitoring and control** to support operational, security, and compliance requirements in environments with strict separation of duties. Requested enhancem...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Smart alerts on Core Web Vitals statistics

It'd be useful to be able create smart alerts based on Core Web Vital statistics like "Interaction to Next Paint (INP)". Being able to create alerts based on these would open multiple possibilities to monitor web application performance. For examp...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Needs more information

Email alert should show Start/End time in IST instead of UTC

For banking operations, alert timelines (start/end) must be clearly understood in local time (IST) without manual conversion errors.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Built-in alert when a sensors password expires

Having a built-in alert that monitors when a sensors password expires will allow Instana to generate an event and enable us to take pro-active measures rather than waiting for someone to notice the sensor data is not coming in.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

add webhook log

Currently, when webhook alert notifications are sent, there is no way to confirm if the delivery was successful. There is a need to add a status query API for alert retransmission. 1. Add an API to query the results of webhook alert notifications....
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Grouping Zabbix Events with Instana

Currently, Instana only displays events integrated from Zabbix. We hope to be able to analyze and group Zabbix events integrated into Instana together with alerts detected by Instana.It would be best if Zabbix events were also grouped in the “Rela...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Outlier detection for infrastructure smart alerts

Many competitors implement outlier detection (example from Splunk: https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-observability-cloud/create-alerts-detectors-and-service-level-objectives/create-alerts-and-detectors/built-in-alert-conditions/outlier-detection)....
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1