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Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Future consideration

List of all ApptioBI Reports to which logged in User is subscribed

This would either be a new menu item that provides a list of the reports that the user is subscribed to, or a new filter on the reports page that enables you to select those reports that you are subscribed to (ideally in conjunction with other fil...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 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

Ability to share a link to a report that automatically applies global filters, date selections and tab selection

Problem:Right now if a colleague asks me a question that can be answered by an Apptio BI report with certain filters applied and looking at a specific tab, I need to:Sh Share the link to the report itself Tell them what tab to go to within the rep...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 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

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

Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 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...
27 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

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