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Dynamic Tag support for process environment variables in actions needed

Hi, We use Webhooks to trigger events in our central alerting console. The messages are then routed to the appropriate team/workflow based on tags which are delivered as environment variables with the process. Currently those environment variables...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Add usage data to DI. Both in the GUI and via API.

It would be very useful to know what reports are being used and by which users. Currently, I have no idea what the adoption level of SevOne is.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

shielded .qcow2 image file for Data Insight complient with GCP provisioning requirements.

Customers are having deploying Data Insight in GCP environment. It seems a shielded .qcow2 image file for Data Insight is needed. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/about-shielded-vm?hl=en
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0

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...
22 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

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 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

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

Ability to Use Multiple “Device Metadata” Variable in a Report

While exploring Data Insight, we found only a single “Device Metadata” variable value could be used as a filter for each report. The ask is to allow multiple “Device Metadata” to be used in given report.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Needs more information

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

For SevOne DI Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics views, create performance health score summary representations at the device and location level (i.e. Jitter, Latency, MoS, etc.)

Would create a Top level Executive, Engineering Capacity and Operational Management service health performance views based on provided locations/sites/devices
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration