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Smart alerts - ability to select any created application

Hi, It would be useful to allow selecting any created application perspective in smart alerts. Currently you can only select application perspectives which had calls (excluding synthetic calls) in last 24h. This is very inpractical if you want to ...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Instana Recipient List in Email Alert

Instana portal to check the recipient list. The client has raised the importance of having full visibility on who receives the alert without needing to navigate back to Instana, as this enhances transparency and efficiency in their workflow. This ...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Adaptive smart alert show preview based on threshold 'corridors'

As users we found it difficult to understand the threshold preview for adaptive smart alerts shows as one line metric. We would favour threshold shown as range above und below the actual metric line which would show the user the corridor of normal...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Get an email when an alert has been changed

We have a few teams working in instana and it would be helpful if we could get an email if an alert is changed.
28 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Instana Smart Alerts Time Thresholds

Current Smart Alert Evaluation granularity scale is between 1 - 30 minutes.We would need alerts much sooner, 10 seconds would be ideal. Can this scale minimum be changed to less than 1 minute?
30 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Allow more flexibility on alert messages

We would like to customize the subject of email alerts sent, so that the users can at a glance determine what is going wrong. This could be done by adding an option for a custom title in the Alert parameters.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Needs more information

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Needs more information

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 0 Under review

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists