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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...
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...
2 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Support for Custom Alert Channels in Instana

Today, to integrate Instana with other tools we rely on webhooks. However, the target tools are often not expecting the Instana payload format, which forces teams to develop custom adapters to transform the data before it can be consumed. In our c...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Add log message filter in Smart Alerts

Currently log message filter is available in Analytics, but not available in Smart Alerts for us to create an alert
5 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Need the ability to send SMS messages directly from Instana SaaS

Want the ability generate an SMS message directly from Instana. There are parts of the company that have access to Pager Duty, but it is not used universally. So, the customer has a need to general SMS messages. This would be for a SaaS deployment.
5 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Need the ability to track and setup limits on Alerting egress

The customer has had issues with their monitoring products where an Event Storm overwhelms their Alerting targets. In particular, the Event Storm caused issues with their ability to use their email system. The monitoring tool flooded their email s...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

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,...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert / Metric Store Future consideration