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Add seasonality on service and endpoint level to Smart Alerts

Add seasonality on service and endpoint level to Smart Alerts.Currently(backend v323) alerting seasonality e.g. on throughput is only available on application perspective level.Please extend capability to service or even endpoint level.Thanks a lo...
25 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Not under consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

Features on Alerts

Repeat notifications at a configurable interval Choose option to notify for alert closures. If repeated alert stops, it means the issue is closed alert. We don't need separate close email. Stop notifications when the alert is closed or acknowledge...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

Lightweight / Modular Instana Agent Package for Large-Scale Enterprise On-Premise Deployments

In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., 900+ on-premise hosts with strict internal network bandwidth limits), deploying and updating the Instana Host Agent is a major pain point. The current Agent installation package is exceedingly large be...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Instana Agent Scheduler: Enabling/Disabling of Sensors based on Trading Schedules & Market Holidays

In the Financial Services Sector (especially Securities and Brokerage), IT operations strictly follow Trading Market Hours (e.g., Pre-market, In-market, Post-market, Off-peak) and Market Holidays (including unexpected holidays such as Typhoon/Weat...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Reasonable default TCP read timeout for IBM MQ Java

Currently on Linux, my understanding is that IBM MQ Java applications runs with a default TCP read timeout of unlimited. This can lead to certain scenarios where a Java IBM MQ thread can hang indefinitely on a TCP socket read. The current workarou...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ Not under consideration

Smart Root Cause Detection for "Agent Not Reporting" Events

## Executive Summary (Elevator Pitch) The current "Instana Agent not reporting" event doesn't differentiate between network issues, host failures, or agent process problems. During network incidents, this creates alert storms with hundreds of iden...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Alert Not under consideration

Mapping dependency/topology between application services and MS SQL DBs when DBs are monitored remotely

We want to map dependencies/topology between application services and Microsoft SQL Server databases where SQL is configured using remote monitoring method (not local agent on DB host). Currently, the application-to-database correlation is not vis...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Not under consideration

Granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Instana Dashboards.

Abbott requires tighter security controls over custom dashboards in Instana. The current model grants full permissions (view, edit, delete) to all members once a dashboard is shared with a team. There is no way to restrict access to read-only or l...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

Add contains/regex/wildcard support to Custom Event DFQ / metric pattern conditions

To support the migration from IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) to Instana, ITM Situation threshold formulas which contain the SCAN function cannot be migrated. The ITM SCAN function searches for a value or partial value anywhere in text or timestamp at...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

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