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Support Violation Count-Based Alert Triggering Within a Lookback Window

Problem Statement Instana Smart Alerts currently evaluate alert conditions based on the number of consecutive evaluation windows that contain violations rather than the number of violations that occur within a specified time period. This limits th...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Enable separate alert notification descriptions/templates for Open and Closed event states in Instana

Sobeys is using Instana alert notifications where the alert description includes operational instructions such as creating a ServiceNow ticket and contacting the on-call support team. In the reported case, the same description was displayed when t...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert Future 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...
4 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...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

GCP: Monitor Cloud service agent CSP constraints

Regarding the use of a cloud service agent to monitor CSP managed services, there are optimal configuration options to consider regarding Host size, JVM max heap memory allocation, SPN count, number of services being monitored etc. There is curren...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor Future consideration

Application based smart alerts overview that shows tiggered issues

Hi, As we are implementing Instana to monitor a rather big environment with tons of apps, devs, ops and teams, Smart Alerts seem to be a good way to reduce workload due to the generic nature of the configuration. It is unusable though as it is ATM...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 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...
5 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...
5 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
7 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.
7 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

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