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Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

New ITNM Collector to collect topology from Huawei NCE R21 (EMS)

Customer is planning to deploy ITNM v4.2.0.21 to pull the topology from below Network Management System (NMS). This topology data will then be collected by IBM AIOps observer. Vendor: Huawei Name: NCE R21 Technology: DWDM Protocol: REST API New co...
about 2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Ensure alerts are reliably delivered even during temporary outages

Hi, At the moment when an event triggers an alert the channel doesn't guarantee delivery of the message or action and it even doesn't log what has happened of if anything happened at all. Therefore we request to improve Instana’s alerting mechanis...
28 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
28 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Include Process Details in Email/Msteams Alert

1. Currently, in Instana, the alerts we receive via email or Teams do not include information about which process is consuming high CPU. However, when we check the event details within the Instana UI, the specific process name is available. 2. It ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Discover DBaaS reservations for max utilization and optimization

Similar to what Turbonomic do with VM reservations, Turbonomic should be able to discover, maximize utilization and provide recommendations on DBaaS factoring in Reservations.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Consistant resizing for DBaaS on Azure

In the situation were there are 2 SQL DBaaS in high availability configuration ( Active-Passive ). When Turbo gives recommendation to size up or down the Active DB, it needs also to reflect that size on the DR or Backup DB to make sure when there ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Under review

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

Automatic event creation for process alerts

We are looking for a solution to employ a predefined list of Processes on the agent config and would need an event for "process down" created if the Instana server detects that process metrics came in from a host at any point and maintain that sta...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration