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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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Alert setup on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity

Ability to setup alert on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity as this requirement will help monitoring team to take action before Horizontal pod autoscaling reach its max capacity
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4

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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Enable Disk Filesystem Attributes (Filesystem Name, Used Space, Available Space) in Custom Payloads

Description: We would like to request the ability to include detailed disk filesystem attributes in the custom payload of alerts — particularly when sending alerts via webhook for disk usage thresholds. Currently, when we configure a custom alert ...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration