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Need the ability to send SMS messages directly from Instana SaaS

Want the ability generate an SMS message directly from Instana. There are parts of the company that have access to Pager Duty, but it is not used universally. So, the customer has a need to general SMS messages. This would be for a SaaS deployment.
about 23 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Need the ability to track and setup limits on Alerting egress

The customer has had issues with their monitoring products where an Event Storm overwhelms their Alerting targets. In particular, the Event Storm caused issues with their ability to use their email system. The monitoring tool flooded their email s...
about 24 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Have slack configuration natively within the Instana UI

With current slack integration, users must have permissions to create slack channels and generate the webhook URL. At the customer, there are users without these permissions. And, it would trigger security auditing and require security approvals. ...
about 24 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Time-based activation of Events / Alerts (e.g. active only 07:00–20:00)

Currently, it is not possible to define time-based activation directly on Events (e.g. Smart Alerts or Custom Events), such as limiting them to business hours from 07:00 to 20:00. For many use cases—such as business services, non-critical systems,...
11 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Alert on changes to Vulnerability exposures

Please allow for the ability to alert on changes in risk posture and exposures / impact of applications as vulnerability data is surfaced within Instana. The goal of such alerting would be to allow for quicker prioritization of remediation and fix...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

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

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.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

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.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information