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Add Terraform Provider Support for Instana Mobile Application Alerts

Instana currently allows configuration of Mobile Application alerts through the UI and API. However, this capability is not available in the Instana Terraform provider, preventing organizations that rely on Infrastructure-as-Code from automating a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

Have slack configuration natively within the Instana UI

With current slack integration, users must have permissions to create slack channels and generate the webhook URL. At the customer, there are users without these permissions. And, it would trigger security auditing and require security approvals. ...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

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.
4 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

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)....
5 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

Event ID in the subject line

Description: At present, Instana alert emails display the Event ID (currently alphanumeric) only in the email body. For operational efficiency, we need the Event ID to also appear in the email subject line. Current Behavior: Event ID is alphanumer...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

Start Date Time and End Date Time should be captured in Instana Alerts via Mail/MSTeams

We have configured alerting for our services in Instana, but we have noticed that the email notifications for triggered alerts do not display the start and end times of the alert. The alert email only shows severity, entity, and message. Start tim...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

Event Creation based VIOS/LPAR State (pHMC Plugin) on Instana

The customer has enabled the pHMC plugin for Instana and started to get the "State" of their Logical Partitions and VIOs' states. However they are not able to create event based on this state. However to retire their legacy monitoring systems, the...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / IBM Power Delivered

Enable Disk Filesystem Attributes (Filesystem Name, Used Space, Available Space) in Custom Payloads

Description: We would like to request the ability to include detailed disk filesystem attributes in the custom payload of alerts — particularly when sending alerts via webhook for disk usage thresholds. Currently, when we configure a custom alert ...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

historical baseline available for memory usage which can be used to set an alert.

There are currently no historical baselines available for memory usage that can be used to configure a static threshold-based alert. Since memory usage can vary significantly, it is not feasible to define a fixed threshold value (e.g., 60% or 10%)...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert Delivered

Include custom payload for Log monitoring

We are able to configure smart alerts for logs but Instana does not support adding custom payload to log smart alerts. Lack of custom payload for log alerts is depriving us from knowing from which application the log is being triggered (We have 17...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert / Logging Delivered