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Need to be able to threshold using COUNT even if the object is NOT an entity

Currently, Instana allows you to use a COUNT evaluation within the system rules. This allows customers to COUNT entities that meet a certain criteria. For example, count the number of processes that are running. But, there are number of customer u...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert 2 Planned for future release

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

Acknowledging alert

Currently, when an alert is triggered in Instana, our operations team receives a notification. While this is a crucial step in our monitoring workflow, we find that the process of acknowledging these alerts is not as streamlined as we would like i...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

MySQL storage used

Would like to get alerts for mysql storage capacity limit. Similar to built in event for cosmosdb "Azure CosmosDb storage capacity is getting closer to max capacity limit"
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need a even / alert generated for missing MQ Objects (queues/channels/topics/subscription etc) including system objects

These objects are very important if go missing, after some incident happens or someone deletes them accidentally can hamper entire MQ operation
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Be able to set priority in the Service Now integration (alert channel)

We currently set priority, it seems, in an arbitrary manner. However, its seems that the priority in SNOW is actually based on two other fields: business impact and urgency. This request is to be able to set an impact and urgency field on SNOW ale...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 2 Planned for future release

Reference-able filter of infrastructure entities

User story As an Instana user,who is in the process of specifying a filter on a set of infrastructure entities,in order to view these entities, to detect issues on them, or to configure maintenance windows on them, I want to have a way to persist ...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

IBM MQ MFT alert payload: on an IBM MQ file transfer failed event, include which file transfer failed in the alert payload "text" field

Currently, when an event of "IBM MQ file transfer failed" happens, the user needs to login into the UI to examine the event to determine which file transfer has failed. When sending an alert, there is no information in the alert payload that denot...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release