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Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Alerting on call drops of less than 30 min

It would be useful for us to have the possibility of being able to create alerts to supervise call drops of less than 30 minutes
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Export custom applicaiton and alert setting

Doe to custom application view will similar with other application. So, export application setting will help to create a new applicaiton view. The customer alert is also the same idea with applicaiton, some alert will similar with other alert sett...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to select single event with multiple threshold on same metric for different disk mount

Currently in Instana you cannot create more than one threshold on same metric. We get this message "No more than one threshold can be defined on the same metric." Use case: Customer wants to create a single event when disk mount usage exceeds 90% ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration

Require Alert Time Window Condition for more than 120 min

We have a custom MQ alert to create an alarm, if messages are not received for more than 12 hours in IBM APM. We have created similar alert in Instana, however alert time window condition is not allowing to add condition of more than 120 mins. We ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Define custom alert for MQ Last put time like IBM APM

We have similar event in IBM APM solution and Instana is collecting the same metrics but cannot define custom alert on the same (Last put time not showing in custom alert). Instana infrastructure don’t support to use non metrics data(numeric) as c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Add email in CC as alert channel

Operation team keeps tracks of who is receiving the alert, at the moment once there is an alert, single emails are sent to each email. It would be preferable to have a main email and a list of emails in CC.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration