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Need the ability to threshold and Event on string values

Within Instana, I can use the Dynamic Focus Query to limit what I threshold on if something is an entity. But, there are many times where customers want to Event and alert on specific string values where the fields are not entities. For example, t...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Include multiple prometheus metrics(same type but from different envs) in one event.

There are about 50 kinds of prometheus metrics that we need to monitor for each env. When we use instana to create events for these metrics, we found that including multiple metrics in one event is not supported by either UI or API. That means eve...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure / SRE 2 Delivered

Add Smart Alerts to Mobile Real User Monitoring

Mobile User Monitoring is lacking the ability to alert on error conditions like: Latency of http requests Requests errors Low number of sessions opened High number of session opened Please consider to include the feature shortly.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Relative deviation for custom events metrics

There should be a functionality to define the relative deviation instead of absolute deviation when creating custom events. For example, when we create a new custom event for "Entity - Application" and "Metric - Call count", we don't want to choos...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

Would like to define Warning and Critical threshold ranges within a single Event or SmartAlert

If a customer wants to create both a Warning and Critical threshold for the same underlying metric, they create either 2 Smart Alerts or 2 Events. For example, create a Warning Event when CPU usage is between 80% and 90% utilization and Critical E...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Email integration with the atlassian status page - Need dynamic configuration to be added as placeholder in email alert notification .

We would like up and down keyword to be send in email subject to integrate instana synthetic monitor with the atlassian status page as the email component only works in that way. Atlassian requirement : https://support.atlassian.com/statuspage/doc...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

Ratio Based Alerts for HTTP Status Codes

Hi Team, I want to place a request to have alerts based on Ratio rather than just having based on having alerts on daily and weekly seasonality. This is required as we are growing. We might see some common errors increasing in the system and avoid...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Smart alerts on mobile apps

The customer wants Smart alerts enabled on mobile apps the same way they exist for Websites.Some examples are alerts on the number of page Loads http status code on pages JS errors slowness of page load etc.So same as Websites.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Delivered

Be able to set priority in the Service Now integration (alert channel)

We currently set priority, it seems, in an arbitrary manner. However, its seems that the priority in SNOW is actually based on two other fields: business impact and urgency. This request is to be able to set an impact and urgency field on SNOW ale...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 2 Delivered