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File based monitoring to check if the file exists

Currently the file plugin in Instana agent does not have the capability to check if a file exist or not. For critical monitoring scenarios, it is important to check if a file exist or not and alert for production environment.
2 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Equals (=) Operator in Smart Alert Threshold

With in the Smart Alerts, for any metrics that holds multiple values and we need alert for only one value and this functionality needs equals ( = ) operator which is not available in Smart Alerts. Having equals operator available for thresholds wi...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Custom Plugin Monitoring Attributes unavailable in Events & Alerts

When windows os services are added to monitoring using host plugin as below, it discovers service name, service state but these important parameters are not available to be used in Events and Alert. Service State is available as metric to create a...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Event auto-closing though the threshold is satisfied

When an event is generated for breaching the threshold condition, event is auto-closed by Instana when there is network issue/agent not reporting data. Events should not be auto closed until Instana determines that the issue is fixed and threshold...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert Under review

Promote "Logs" blueprint on Application Smart Alerts to GA

We would appreciate deploying the "Logs" blueprint on production, but this first needs to be promoted to General Availabilty - it's currently in Preview. Advantages: Fast, low-effort alert creation for error/warning logs Developers can quickly...
27 days ago in Instana / Alert / Logging Planned for future release

Allow for more than five metrics within a smart alert

Within version 1.323.853 smart alerts GA, the wizard only allows for five metrics. In our case, we had seven file systems that we wanted to alert upon, but had to create a second smart alert to contain the balance. In the preview version, we had a...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

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?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Would like to be able to add an exception on a smart alert from a log message (not error message but log message)

We have a need to add an exception on a smart alert from a log message. I know you can from a error message, couldn't find a way to add via log message opened a incident TS022470818 to see if there was a way and was told there was not but to put i...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert Needs more information

Instana Auto Incident Closure

The auto-incident closure in Instana is currently working as designed — incidents are generated when an issue occurs and automatically closed once the condition clears or stops recurring. While this is expected behavior by default, it is creating ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

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