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To avoid unnecessary events close and open during Instana agent restart

When I'm testing Instana agent restart OR stop/start, I've found lots of unnecessary event closed and opened. Before Instana agent restarted/stopped, there are lots of opened/outstanding events associated with that servers. After I stopped/restart...
1 day ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Add contains/regex/wildcard support to Custom Event DFQ / metric pattern conditions

To support the migration from IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) to Instana, ITM Situation threshold formulas which contain the SCAN function cannot be migrated. The ITM SCAN function searches for a value or partial value anywhere in text or timestamp at...
13 days ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

Allow Customization or Duplication of Built-in Events in Instana

We are currently experiencing a high number of false positives generated by Instana’s built-in events, which leads us to completely disregard them and instead rely on custom events or smart alerts. The main limitation is that built-in events canno...
15 days ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

Show which events were suppressed during maintenance

Dear Colleagues, our customer is heavily using automations for maintenance operations and request for visualisation of events which were suppressed from Incident creation and escalation. It is very useful during troubleshooting to understand if th...
16 days ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Customize email mail body and subject in Instana notifications

Currently we are receiving different subject lines for Instana alerts. We would like to customize the subject and email body of email alerts sent by Instana. Can you please enable feature to add custom templates for mail alerts?
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Instana Auto Incident Closure

The auto-incident closure in Instana is currently working as designed — incidents are generated when an issue occurs and automatically closed once the condition clears or stops recurring. While this is expected behavior by default, it is creating ...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Suggestion for Smart Alert

Here are some suggestions to improve the usability of Smart Alert Move Smart Alert into Setting -> "Events & alerts". This allows administrator to manage all alert setting in the same place. Currently, smart alert located in different are...
23 days ago in Instana / Alert Functionality already exists

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Need better alert content

When Events trigger and alerts are send to end users, there is a need to have important information as part of the alert. For example, let's say I setup a threshold to monitor for sustained CPU usage greater than 80%. When the Alert is sent, it is...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Ability to suppress agent status monitoring issue alerts

In the instana portal, agent status monitoring issue alerts are currently triggered when certain packages cannot be fully monitored by the host agent. For instance, there may be a process that can be monitored in terms of utilisation, but full sta...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration