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Ability to montior the agent mode changes due to separation of duties

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for enhanced **agent mode monitoring and control** to support operational, security, and compliance requirements in environments with strict separation of duties. Requested enhancem...
15 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Alert to detect AZ wide failure in public cloud

When the node failure occurs, we can set "Host Availability" alert. When the az wide spread failure occurs, lots of this "Host Availability" alert will be generated at the similar timing. But to identify that failure is az / region wide more clear...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Smart alerts on Core Web Vitals statistics

It'd be useful to be able create smart alerts based on Core Web Vital statistics like "Interaction to Next Paint (INP)". Being able to create alerts based on these would open multiple possibilities to monitor web application performance. For examp...
16 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

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?
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Grouping Zabbix Events with Instana

Currently, Instana only displays events integrated from Zabbix. We hope to be able to analyze and group Zabbix events integrated into Instana together with alerts detected by Instana.It would be best if Zabbix events were also grouped in the “Rela...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Email alert should show Start/End time in IST instead of UTC

For banking operations, alert timelines (start/end) must be clearly understood in local time (IST) without manual conversion errors.
22 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Expand Instana Severity Levels to match with Netcool Omnibus and other AIOps Event Management.

Dear IBM Instana Product Team, As a customer currently using IBM APM V8 alongside IBM Instana for application performance monitoring, we appreciate the robust capabilities and insights provided by Instana’s monitoring platform. However, we have id...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Built-in alert when a sensors password expires

Having a built-in alert that monitors when a sensors password expires will allow Instana to generate an event and enable us to take pro-active measures rather than waiting for someone to notice the sensor data is not coming in.
26 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted