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Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Manage custom event based on permissions.

Hi, Banca d'Italia is asking a way to disable the custom-event (creation/modification/deletion on particular app perspectives and infrastructure entities) for a user that has not the privilege to see some application perspectives and infrastructur...
27 days ago in Instana / Alert 4

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Alert Audit Log, basically a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, which channel, what payload, etc…

We would like to ask for a feature to allow for Alerts to be protocolled and saved (kind of an Alert Audit Log). Basically, a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, what payload, etc…Website and Applications use Smart Alerts. I ...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to events/alerts/etc

Would like the ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to event/alerts. This would allow us to add more Application Perspective's to one alert instead of creating multiple of the same alert to cover the Application Perspective's that...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration