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Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Send alert config id in alert notification

We are currently struggeling to correlate, which alert config has caused a notification being sent to our notification channel. It would be helpful to also receive a deep link to the alert config.
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add blacklisting functionality of certain events in the alert configuration.

We really like the possibility to be able to alert on event types. However sometimes, a particular event is not relevant for a specific team and we want to disable it. It would be much more easy in this case to disable certain events in the contex...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Add event triggered value in custom event subject and email.

we need to added as exist in build in event when it triggered it show the value in end of the subject like (12.31%) While it not shown in subject in custom events ... i need to include this reached value in subject because not exist also in Applic...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Document the recommended number of events and smart alerts the SaaS by default can support

The information would be useful when development of a solution in which is a replacement of an existing APM. The primary benefit would be to not pick a path only to find out after a large time investment that that option is not able to support the...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Mute or Silent specific service alert to exclude specific Node/Cluster from the filter

Mute/Silent alerts for Particular node or cluster which is making lot of noise. Please refer case ID TS016989752 for the same.
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Instana events do not support adding more than five metric conditions.

Some of the situations in my customers data is comprised of more than five conditions that Instana do not support today.I am working on ITM2Instana modernisation offering and we need to transform customer's ITM data into Instana e-g, situation (ev...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert / MQ 0 Not under consideration

The time range of the link in event closure mail should be set according to the end date/time, not start date/time

If user click the link of the closure mail of the event, it looked like the event is still active, and the icon is red. This is because the time range of the link is:From: event start date/time - 5 minsTo: event start date/time + 5 mins But we thi...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Encryption of credentials in configuration

It would be desirable if the credentials configured in Alert Channels were not displayed in plain text. This makes it possible for anyone with access to Instana to go into the configuration and see the credentials (username and password) in plain ...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review