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Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

Edit the evaluation granularity for a smart alert

The minimum evaluation granularity for a smart alert is limited at 5 mins, We need to change it so that we get alerts related to slow calls etc which may not persist for more than 5 minutes. Below is a real time scenario. When will a person be ale...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Pager Duty integration - would be helpful to have more fields provided from instana so we can route better

Instana only seems to give an incident and service key for an alert, we can't determine what serverless repo orginated it.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Add a new time option for configuring an Event

The only current time option is the "time window". It would be much appreciated if there is another time option to specify the time for which an event will only trigger if the conditions are met continually during that time. For instance, if we se...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Alerts for JVM Total Thread count

Could you please let know if we can create an alert if the total thread count is greater than a certain value
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Override the Entity in the Event SDK

We are using event sdk within our OpenShift environment. https://www.instana.com/docs/api/agent/#event-sdk-web-service We are able to trigger events from within a pod, but they come in listed as an entitytype of Host. We would like these events to...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Multiple Choice for HTTP Status Codes alert

We were working on smart alert and just want to monitor 501,500,503,400,404 error. But don't see the abilities to add specific codes. Multiple Choice would be grate option to select alerts.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 3 Functionality already exists

Need to create alert based on trace / http metric value

create a custom alert (and thus event in the first instance) in our Production Instana instance.EVENT: The application is "Card Services" the metric is "Call latency" (P99) and the filter I'm trying to apply is on call.http.path that equals a spec...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Allow report export on Events data

As an SRE, I want the data from Instana when looking for Incidents (Event Tab) to be exported automatically and not just being queried inside Instana.
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists