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Need the ability to threshold and Event on string values

Within Instana, I can use the Dynamic Focus Query to limit what I threshold on if something is an entity. But, there are many times where customers want to Event and alert on specific string values where the fields are not entities. For example, t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 1 Delivered

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Delivered

Define reoccurring maintenance windows

Please offer the possibility to define reoccuring "maintenance windows". Usecase: Prevent getting alerts for process-restarts that are scheduled every night / every Sunday / on each 1. day of a month / …
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Recalculate smart alert baseline via API

We're managing multiple instana backends via API configuration. This works for many configuration items. However it doesn't work for Smart Alerts with a daily or weakly seasonality. Seasonality differs per system. While it is possible to recalcula...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Monitor on message types

Hi, We have some requirements where instead of putting a certain message id to monitor. We monitor all *INQUIRY messages which has not been responded within a certain period of time. If an INQUIRY message is still waiting for a reply for more than...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Instana use case for IBMi monitoring

Dear Instana team, We would like to have this use case supported by Instana please: We would like to monitor if some critical IBMi jobs (that we would specify by name) is running or not I have researched the options provided out of the box by Inst...
over 3 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Delivered

Would like to define Warning and Critical threshold ranges within a single Event or SmartAlert

If a customer wants to create both a Warning and Critical threshold for the same underlying metric, they create either 2 Smart Alerts or 2 Events. For example, create a Warning Event when CPU usage is between 80% and 90% utilization and Critical E...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered