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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

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...

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 Unit of Measure as a Dimension in Cloudability

While Usage Quantity is a metric, the corresponding Unit of Measure if not a dimension that is surfaced in Cloudability. Without Unit of Measure, it is not always possible to tell what is being measure/billed in Usage Quantity (hour, GB, core, etc...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Needs more information

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

Report memory used in AWS RDS to reports and dashboards

Seeing the amount of used memory alongside CPU would help customers make an informed decision around rightsizing and other utilization / consumption metrics as to how best optimize their workloads.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Needs more information

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

Unused Business Mapping, Account Groups, and Tags – Identification & Housekeeping

Currently, customers create tags, account groups, and business mappings that are applied across reports and dashboards. However, over time, some of these objects may no longer be in use—either because the business context has changed, projects hav...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Bringing the 'Invoice Unit' field values from AWS CUR into Cloudability

AWS added a new field ('Invoice Unit') in December 2024. This information is in the CUR. This field value does not come into Cloudy through current configuration. The client says that this is a critical field that they want to report on to their e...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Planned for future release