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Place event id in alert header

Currently there is no id in email alert header. Please make e.g. event id part of email alert header to support automated and human processing
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Make Message Bus Probe HTTP Responses more visible in Probe Logs

If the Message Bus Probe receives too large payloads, the sender will get back the HTTP status code "413 Payload Too Large". This is correct, but in the Probes logfiles this is only documented with a warning line "payload to large".
over 5 years ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Enable Discovery Functionality on Mttrapd Probe Version 21.1

After the Engine boot and Engine time move out of sync between the remote device and probe cache. Currently the new Mttrapd probe 21.1 is not enabled with the discovery functionality to handshake with the device to learn the SNMPv3 EngineBoot and ...
over 5 years ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Acknowledging alert

Currently, when an alert is triggered in Instana, our operations team receives a notification. While this is a crucial step in our monitoring workflow, we find that the process of acknowledging these alerts is not as streamlined as we would like i...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Pre-flight data volume measurements for all AIOps connectors

We need the ability to connect to data sources and run a pre-flight check on how much data will be generated by the connection. It is difficult to guess how much data will be generated up front without actually connecting to the data source and se...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Message Bus Probe basic auth user expanded

The basic authentication user account only allows for a single username and password. This might work well in a very small company, but gets more challenging in a larger organization. What would make this more useful is to allow the basic auth use...
over 5 years ago in AIOps Integrations 2 Future consideration

Get an email when an alert has been changed

We have a few teams working in instana and it would be helpful if we could get an email if an alert is changed.
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration