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Need better alert content

When Events trigger and alerts are send to end users, there is a need to have important information as part of the alert. For example, let's say I setup a threshold to monitor for sustained CPU usage greater than 80%. When the Alert is sent, it is...
4 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Support for Custom Alert Channels in Instana

Today, to integrate Instana with other tools we rely on webhooks. However, the target tools are often not expecting the Instana payload format, which forces teams to develop custom adapters to transform the data before it can be consumed. In our c...
4 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Alert mail includes the timestamp in specified timezone

When incident happens, Instana can send the incident mail, and in the mail there is timestamps when the incident starts or closes. But it's timestamp is in UTC. We want to specify the timezone ( like JST ) in the mail. It can be set per alert-chan...
17 days ago in Instana / Alert Functionality already exists

Metrica Alertable CURRENT_BLOCKING_SESSIONS de base de datos Oracle

Se requiere que la métrica CURRENT_BLOCKING_SESSIONS para las base de datos Oracle, pueda ser configurada en los nuevos eventos y así ante cualquier bloqueo en la base de datos la herramienta pueda alertar por correo electrónico. Machine translati...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert / Metric Store Needs more information

Ability to have Multi-Metric Smart Alerts for Applications. i.e Health Rules

Problem: Customers migrating from AppDynamics rely on health rules that combine multiple metrics (latency, error rate, throughput) within a single alert. Instana currently limits application smart alerts to a single metric. Proposed Capability: Al...
25 days ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

Improve Filtering & Alerting Controls for Internal Events (e.g., Abnormal Termination)

Abnormal termination and change events cannot be: Cleanly identified during alert creation Selectively routed without alerting on all critical issues Requested Enhancement Documented event types for all internal events First‑class filters in alert...
27 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Controlling instana default events (change, online, offline)

if possible to shut down some change/online/offline events similar to the control over default events in the Events page. To clarify this, controlling change/online/offline events to be sent to the alert channel and appear in alert dashboard but n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Self Hosted Needs more information

Add log message filter in Smart Alerts

Currently log message filter is available in Analytics, but not available in Smart Alerts for us to create an alert
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

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.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 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...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert Submitted