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Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Built-In Host disk space event description must include the mount point (for Unix and Linux).

Currently event description looks like : Deveice '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v' is full. Clean space on '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v'.... This not descriptive and less usable. It's more preferred to use mount point instead of disk device space.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Group by functionality with some widgets does not work as expected. The sum of the values is no longer accurate at all sometimes

Group by functionality with some widgets does not work as expected. The sum of the values is no longer accurate at all sometimes
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to send email to ALL users

I would be very helpful to have the ability to send an email to ALL users. We are an on-prem installation.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 1 Not under consideration

Smart alerts - ability to select any created application

Hi, It would be useful to allow selecting any created application perspective in smart alerts. Currently you can only select application perspectives which had calls (excluding synthetic calls) in last 24h. This is very inpractical if you want to ...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

Get an email when an alert has been changed

We have a few teams working in instana and it would be helpful if we could get an email if an alert is changed.
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration