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Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Toggle whether to get alerted when the issue is resolved for IBMi Message Queue Events

When the agent works on IBMi, when monitoring specific messages in a message queue, we receive two notifications: A warning when the message is detected (event triggered) Another notification when the event closes (event resolved) For this specifi...
23 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

ITM TEP Desktop Client - Add User Session Timeout Options

Adding user session timeout options would allow system administrators to better tailor the TEP client for their organizations access/security standards. Some possible timeout options: Idle timeout (minutes): Specify the number of minutes a user's ...
2 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Functionality already exists

Compliance - Data retention policy for ITM

To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within ITM that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration