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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 ...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Is a defect

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

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.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

threshould managenet for every individual service/host

the threshold management is not easy. we cant configure builtin events and we cant easily change the threshould for services we have to create a new event with new threshould also we cant create the builtin events with different threshoulds as well.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Built-In Host disk space event description must include the mount point (for Unix and Linux).

Currently event description looks like : Deveice '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v' is full. Clean space on '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v'.... This not descriptive and less usable. It's more preferred to use mount point instead of disk device space.
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration