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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.
4 days 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 ...
9 days 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...
11 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 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...
13 days 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.
16 days 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...
17 days ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

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.
30 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time Attached screenshot for the reference Thanks Vasu
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

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.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted