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Instana

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over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
8 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 4 Functionality already exists

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
about 5 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 2

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Events without RCA

Please clarify under which conditions Instana is able to determine the RCA for an incident. We are seeing similar alerts, some with RCA, and some without.
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Time-based activation of Events / Alerts (e.g. active only 07:00–20:00)

Currently, it is not possible to define time-based activation directly on Events (e.g. Smart Alerts or Custom Events), such as limiting them to business hours from 07:00 to 20:00. For many use cases—such as business services, non-critical systems,...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Possibility to hide API tokens permanently after initial creation

Hi, API tokens in Instana can always be lookep up after creation and copied by everyone with the appropriate permissions. In our organisation there is a regulation, that access credentials or similar data needs to be placed in the company PIM syst...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Grouping Zabbix Events with Instana

Currently, Instana only displays events integrated from Zabbix. We hope to be able to analyze and group Zabbix events integrated into Instana together with alerts detected by Instana.It would be best if Zabbix events were also grouped in the “Rela...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration