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Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
2 months 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 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

Place event id in alert header

Currently there is no id in email alert header. Please make e.g. event id part of email alert header to support automated and human processing
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

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

Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Send alert config id in alert notification

We are currently struggeling to correlate, which alert config has caused a notification being sent to our notification channel. It would be helpful to also receive a deep link to the alert config.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Encryption of credentials in configuration

It would be desirable if the credentials configured in Alert Channels were not displayed in plain text. This makes it possible for anyone with access to Instana to go into the configuration and see the credentials (username and password) in plain ...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review