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Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Commitment Support Azure Blob Storage

A reservation covers storage capacity for Blob storage and Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage. The reservation doesn't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Delivered

Latency Alerts in http requests in Mobile Apps perpective

We believe that adding latency alerts in Instana's mobile app dashboard would significantly enhance our monitoring capabilities. Currently, while we can observe the latency of Android app calls, we are unable to create smart alerts based on this m...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Instana and MS teams notification

Notification integration with MS teams to be two ways for example allow taking action from MSteams
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Commitment Support for AWS OpenSearch

Support for AWS OpenSearch Reserved Instances.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Delivered

Commitment Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Delivered

Adaptive Threshold for Erroneous Calls - Global Smart Alerts

Currently in Global Smart Alerts, adaptive threshold option is there for Slow calls, HTTP Status Codes and throughput. Whereas, for erroneous calls only static threshold is available. Static threshold will not account for the daily erroneous call ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Event Creation based VIOS/LPAR State (pHMC Plugin) on Instana

The customer has enabled the pHMC plugin for Instana and started to get the "State" of their Logical Partitions and VIOs' states. However they are not able to create event based on this state. However to retire their legacy monitoring systems, the...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert / IBM Power 0 Delivered

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered