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Subject line of email alerts

We use several onprem backends. All alerts sent by Instana have an email-subject with prefix “[Instana]”. How can we modify that and/or add a label reflecting the backend-name, e.g. “[Instana-Prod1]” or “[Instana][Prod2]”?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Hostname details instead of service name in custom event alert?

The customer would like to see Hostname details in custom event alerts instead of service or process names.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Potential Problems Digest

a single location for viewing/reviewing anomalies is desired.Customer’s use case needs a 1-week look back
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Need to Modify Built-in Event for System load too high (parametrization of built-in events)

The customer needs to modify one built-in event for High CPU Utilization .Changes they want in metric:
1. Load Threshold = 75 % (85% for streaming servers)
2. Sliding window span = 15 min Can you please help them to create a new built-in event wit...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Smart Alert Weekly seasonality baseline not working

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Is a defect

Scope of the Smart alert are not based on Individual endpoints

trying to group alerts based on individual endpoints
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Alerts/Events details download option in Incident page CSV/Excel

The client would like to have an option to download a list of triggered Alerts/Events via an excel/csv file based on an applied filter. Use-case:To do more analysis like frequent alerts max impacted services and etc.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic threshold is not available for Error calls in Smart Alerts

The client wants to use the Beta Smart alert feature in Instana and observed the Dynamic Threshold featureis only applicable for Throughput and Slow Calls and they want the same feature to be enabled on Erroneous Calls Error and Warning Logs andHT...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Fire an alarm when the number of running servers are below minimum

Customer would want to create a custom event that will fire an alert when the number of running servers is below the minimum expected. Use case: They got 4 running different servers all the time that are autoscaling. This custom event would need t...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Allow wildcarding on custom event metrics specification

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration