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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...
2 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

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 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Customize email mail body and subject in Instana notifications

Currently we are receiving different subject lines for Instana alerts. We would like to customize the subject and email body of email alerts sent by Instana. Can you please enable feature to add custom templates for mail alerts?
11 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Alert mail includes the timestamp in specified timezone

When incident happens, Instana can send the incident mail, and in the mail there is timestamps when the incident starts or closes. But it's timestamp is in UTC. We want to specify the timezone ( like JST ) in the mail. It can be set per alert-chan...
15 days ago in Instana / Alert Functionality already exists

Instana Auto Incident Closure

The auto-incident closure in Instana is currently working as designed — incidents are generated when an issue occurs and automatically closed once the condition clears or stops recurring. While this is expected behavior by default, it is creating ...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Metrica Alertable CURRENT_BLOCKING_SESSIONS de base de datos Oracle

Se requiere que la métrica CURRENT_BLOCKING_SESSIONS para las base de datos Oracle, pueda ser configurada en los nuevos eventos y así ante cualquier bloqueo en la base de datos la herramienta pueda alertar por correo electrónico. Machine translati...
22 days ago in Instana / Alert / Metric Store Needs more information

Ability to have Multi-Metric Smart Alerts for Applications. i.e Health Rules

Problem: Customers migrating from AppDynamics rely on health rules that combine multiple metrics (latency, error rate, throughput) within a single alert. Instana currently limits application smart alerts to a single metric. Proposed Capability: Al...
23 days ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

Improve Filtering & Alerting Controls for Internal Events (e.g., Abnormal Termination)

Abnormal termination and change events cannot be: Cleanly identified during alert creation Selectively routed without alerting on all critical issues Requested Enhancement Documented event types for all internal events First‑class filters in alert...
25 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

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
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

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