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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
18 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 0 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...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

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....
3 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Ensure alerts are reliably delivered even during temporary outages

Hi, At the moment when an event triggers an alert the channel doesn't guarantee delivery of the message or action and it even doesn't log what has happened of if anything happened at all. Therefore we request to improve Instana’s alerting mechanis...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Include Process Details in Email/Msteams Alert

1. Currently, in Instana, the alerts we receive via email or Teams do not include information about which process is consuming high CPU. However, when we check the event details within the Instana UI, the specific process name is available. 2. It ...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 7 Future consideration

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration