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When multiple alerts are sent to a given alert channel, send a single message instead of 1 message per alert

Some users have more than 50 applications. When a core application is down, all connected applications generate an alert. Then the user receive a lot of emails or teams messages, which makes it difficult to handle. We would like to add the possibi...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

When sending alerts from Instana to Opsgenie, please send them in plain text.

This is a customer feature request. Please review it. The related case is TS016826822. When Instana is introduced, the alert transmission structure is "Instana -> Opsgenie -> Slack". When sending a notification message from Instana to Opsgen...
about 15 hours ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 0 Under review

Need ways to customize logo for emails Instana sends

Dear colleagues, our customer has asked if we allow to add a custom logo into Instana email notification, would be nice to have that feature for all of on-premises environments. Please consider adding the option Thank you
16 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add dynamic value tags to alerts in non-global custom payloads

Hi, Can you please add ability to choose dynamic tag values for non-global custom payloads on alerts? Currently this is only available for global custom payload (see attached picture). Best regards,ldrascic
17 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

threshould managenet for every individual service/host

the threshold management is not easy. we cant configure builtin events and we cant easily change the threshould for services we have to create a new event with new threshould also we cant create the builtin events with different threshoulds as well.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

Option to display the current CPU, Memory & Disk Utilization in the event message

We are unable to append the Current utilization values for infrastructure events, whereas the same option is available for the Application performance related alerts. It will be better to have the same for the Infrastructure alerts as the Admin te...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Need an alert configuration for Instana License expiry

Hi Team, We would like to have an alert configuration to notify us on the license expiration. It will be helpful for us to renew the license on time. We request you to please consider this request into consideration.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists