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AI assisted documentation writing

It would be great to have a document editor with an LLM chat side by side to create product documentation, use case descriptions, ... The user and the LLM can change the document contents and the workflow may be as follows: The user pasts a templa...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

Ability to adjust column width of label in Detailed View

To improve the readability and ensure the label doesn't "bunch up" when the title is long, we can adjust the following aspects: Increase Label Width: We can increase the width of the label to provide more space for long titles, preventing text fro...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Alert Audit Log, basically a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, which channel, what payload, etc…

We would like to ask for a feature to allow for Alerts to be protocolled and saved (kind of an Alert Audit Log). Basically, a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, what payload, etc…Website and Applications use Smart Alerts. I ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Adaptive smart alert show preview based on threshold 'corridors'

As users we found it difficult to understand the threshold preview for adaptive smart alerts shows as one line metric. We would favour threshold shown as range above und below the actual metric line which would show the user the corridor of normal...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Comprehensive History Retention for Entity Updates in TargetProcess

Current Limitation: TargetProcess currently retains historical updates only under specific conditions: Only changes to the entity state are consistently logged. Updates to other fields are not retained unless at least five minutes have passed betw...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Want to be able to enrich data based on the entities involved in an Incident and application

I'm working with a customer. The use IBM ACE and MQ. Whenever they have problems with an application or with MQ or ACE, they want to have a screen where they can see and compare some of the key metrics. For example, they want to see the Input/Outp...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

POST Endpoint for Instana Event REST API

Currently there is no simple way to create Alerts or Alert Channels using the Instana API. Only the PUT method exists which can be used to Create or Update these resources. However, these endpoints require unique IDs to perform these actions, whic...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration