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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

Instana

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Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Smart Alert - grouping/summary/templates

A function of other APMs that I've used is the concepts of summaries and group alert copy or alert templates. Summaries - In cases, when memory, CPU and or filesystems alert they do so together which is a single event. With a summary structure, wh...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Smart alerts should have a severity placeholder

With build " 1.282.1064" the smart alerts got a very useful ability to have warning and critical thresholds defined on a single smart alert. This was a welcomed change and reduce our planned alert set by half. However, we were also expecting to be...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Expansions of Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Decouple the smart alert title with the subject of the resulting email. Currently with the title and subject line being the same, the display for smart alerts shows the placeholders which have no real meaning in the context of smart alert listings.
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Add "path" value in helm chart with the Rabbitmq plugin defined

Hi, Please add the possibilty to add the "path" value in static-agent helm chart with using the rabbitmq plugin. All our rabbitmq containers are deployed with the "path : /rabbit". This path is not recognized by Instana because it's limited to use...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
4 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Not under consideration

Add Kinesis Firehose Cloudwatch Metric to AWS Sensor

Hi all, Currently, only Kinesis Data streams but not Kinesis Data Firehose streams are supported by the AWS sensor. Since our platform is also using Kinesis Data Firehose streams, an integration is much appreciated. Thanks in advance and kind rega...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 2

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2