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Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1

Show alerts using Mobile App

Options to view Instana Alerts using a Mobile App
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

historical baseline available for memory usage which can be used to set an alert.

There are currently no historical baselines available for memory usage that can be used to configure a static threshold-based alert. Since memory usage can vary significantly, it is not feasible to define a fixed threshold value (e.g., 60% or 10%)...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2

Allow more flexibility on alert messages

We would like to customize the subject of email alerts sent, so that the users can at a glance determine what is going wrong. This could be done by adding an option for a custom title in the Alert parameters.
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Alert Suppession with multiple NOT conditions is not working as expected

Alert Suppression with multiple NOT conditions in INSTANA is not functioning as expected. When configuring suppression rules that include more than one NOT condition (e.g., NOT tag1=value1 AND NOT tag2=value2), alerts are still being triggered for...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Web/App End User Monitoring: Custom Metrics: Enable Alerts Based on Actual Metric Values, Instead of Only Count of Custom Metrics

In our Website Monitoring using the INEUM SDK, custom metrics are recorded and correctly displayed on default dashboards. However, when configuring smart alerts, we are restricted to using only the count of custom metric events. We cannot create a...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Planned for future release

Ability to pass a dynamic instana custom dashboard link in the alert

Customer want to pass a dynamic instana customer dashboard link in the custom payload of the alert that has dynamic filters based on the entity in alert.for example customer has a custom dashboard that show queue usage statistics over time. when a...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Adaptive smart alert show preview based on threshold 'corridors'

As users we found it difficult to understand the threshold preview for adaptive smart alerts shows as one line metric. We would favour threshold shown as range above und below the actual metric line which would show the user the corridor of normal...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration