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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

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

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

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

Improve quality and detail within error messages

to help understand what the problem is and to identify potential workaround and solutions
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

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

In Sankey Diagram, customer needs YTD for cost metric and not just month.

Hi All, ADIA is prime Middle East customer for us. They moved into Apptio from one of our competitors. They feel Sankey Diagram is the best thing on reporting side, but they need option to have YTD cost and not just monthly which is provided by ou...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Overlay graph with stacked bar in base layer and column in layer 1

Currently, the overlay chart doesn’t function as expected when selecting stacked in the base layer and column in layer 1, as it displays all three metrics as separate bars. It would be valuable to have a feature that supports stacking two metrics ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

Improvement of Overlay Charts

The overlay charts contain Columns, Stacked and Trend. My idea is to add three options to the OVerlay charts 1: Add the option to add rows 2: Allow adding columns or Rows in Level 1 to a stacked graph in level 2 - Overlay has a stacked bar with a ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration