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Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Planned for future release

Toggle whether to get alerted when the issue is resolved for IBMi Message Queue Events

When the agent works on IBMi, when monitoring specific messages in a message queue, we receive two notifications: A warning when the message is detected (event triggered) Another notification when the event closes (event resolved) For this specifi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Reassign Ownership of Dashboards and Reports

It would be helpful to have a reassign ownership option, similar to Apptio BI, so that when someone leaves the org, they can just change the ownership of their reports. Unless I'm mistaken, the method now for dashboards would be to duplicate a das...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Use Selected Time Period to Populate AutoFill Lists in Filter on a report or dashboard

My understanding is that the last two months of data are used to populate the autofill values on the filter dimensions. For example, if I select Jan - Jun 2025 in the date selection and then add Month (Year) as a filter, the autofill options are 2...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Color-coded highlighting based on ticket status

Description: Currently, Instana alert emails display ticket/event details in plain formatting. For better readability, we request support for color-coded highlighting based on ticket status. Request: Open Tickets → Title should be displayed in Red...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review

Event ID in the subject line

Description: At present, Instana alert emails display the Event ID (currently alphanumeric) only in the email body. For operational efficiency, we need the Event ID to also appear in the email subject line. Current Behavior: Event ID is alphanumer...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review

Ability to Send Anomaly Alerts to multiple people

Currently everyone who wants to receive alerts on anomalies has to create their own email alerts because it only sends to yourself. It would be helpful to be able to add multiple people to an anomaly email alert so that multiple people can get not...

Allow events to be cloned as a custom event

At present if someone likes a certain built-in event but wants to apply a scope to it or change the threshold they need to create the event from scratch. But you can easily add a clone button to create a new custom event, suing the bult-in event a...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Email - To field displays only a single email address

Description: Currently, when multiple email addresses are configured in the Instana Email Alert Channel (To field), all recipients successfully receive the alert email.However, in the received alert, the “To” field displays only a single email add...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Under review