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Reference-able filter of infrastructure entities

User story As an Instana user,who is in the process of specifying a filter on a set of infrastructure entities,in order to view these entities, to detect issues on them, or to configure maintenance windows on them, I want to have a way to persist ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to select single event with multiple threshold on same metric for different disk mount

Currently in Instana you cannot create more than one threshold on same metric. We get this message "No more than one threshold can be defined on the same metric." Use case: Customer wants to create a single event when disk mount usage exceeds 90% ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Require Alert Time Window Condition for more than 120 min

We have a custom MQ alert to create an alarm, if messages are not received for more than 12 hours in IBM APM. We have created similar alert in Instana, however alert time window condition is not allowing to add condition of more than 120 mins. We ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Define custom alert for MQ Last put time like IBM APM

We have similar event in IBM APM solution and Instana is collecting the same metrics but cannot define custom alert on the same (Last put time not showing in custom alert). Instana infrastructure don’t support to use non metrics data(numeric) as c...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Add email in CC as alert channel

Operation team keeps tracks of who is receiving the alert, at the moment once there is an alert, single emails are sent to each email. It would be preferable to have a main email and a list of emails in CC.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration

Better UI for Smart Alerts and Alert channels

We have discovered that without a rigid and detailed naming convention for smart alerts (including global smart alerts), we are encountering many issues as administrators to figure out which alerts are being fired, and which ones belong to which A...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 3 Not under consideration

Smart Alert routing

Currently we have several custom payload values (mainly K8s Service and K8s Pod Labels) which we send along with alerts to PagerDuty, and in pagerDuty, routing logic is applied based on these custom payload values. As discussed, it would be great ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Instana should warn when a cluster or node is unscheduleable due to pod limits

In the OCP Console, there is a warning when a nodes node's available resources are exceeded by the limits of the running workloads, making the node unschedulable. Right now it is possible to show on a custom dashboard that the limits/available is ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration