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• We can not create a custom event same same properties with built-in event.

Exp: CPU Steal Time exceeded – “Number of violations as a condition” property does not exist. we have to be able to recreate the builtin events so that we can create them using different threshoulds and such. some of the events does not meet our d...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Make the metrics for "max_metrics_reached" with the limit accessible for alerts

We hit the "max_metrics_reached" on one of our tenants on an agent and we had to reach out to support (TSo17688362) for assistance. Support requested a metric limit increase, which removed the message and allowed the agent to capture more metrics ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Option to display the current CPU, Memory & Disk Utilization in the event message

We are unable to append the Current utilization values for infrastructure events, whereas the same option is available for the Application performance related alerts. It will be better to have the same for the Infrastructure alerts as the Admin te...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Events - Event table should have the affected entity name

In the events-event table, with the title, on, started, end, timeline, state, the entity name is not present or sortable on the entity to determine if the events are focused on affected population. The on column should include the entity name not ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Not under consideration

Need an alert configuration for Instana License expiry

Hi Team, We would like to have an alert configuration to notify us on the license expiration. It will be helpful for us to renew the license on time. We request you to please consider this request into consideration.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Add blacklisting functionality of certain events in the alert configuration.

We really like the possibility to be able to alert on event types. However sometimes, a particular event is not relevant for a specific team and we want to disable it. It would be much more easy in this case to disable certain events in the contex...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration