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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 14, 2023

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Mar 8, 2024

    Hi Team,

    Smart alerts option using "Unexpected High or Low Number of Calls" will not completely cover the scenarios, it would be better to have an option to select specific time range for the alert to be active. Please help to check further. Thanks !

  • Guest
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    Oct 26, 2023

    Smart Alerts can already adapt to the underlying metric that's being evaluated. For your use case, you could:

    • Create an Application Perspective for the calls in scope (i.e., calls. made to specific Kubernetes Pod)

    • Create a Smart Alert on that Application Perspective using the Throughput template (i.e., "Unexpected High or Low Number of Calls")

    • Choose the Static Daily Seasonal threshold or Static Weekly Seasonal threshold (a dynamic threshold derived from analysing historical data and composed of a unique threshold value for each Evaluation Granularity that repeats itself every 24 hours of 7 days respectively)

    • Adjust the sensitivity as you see fit



  • Guest
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    Oct 16, 2023

    As our application supports UK customers, we expect more traffic only during UK day time. Observability tool expected to be flexible to adopt required business use cases.

  • Guest
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    Oct 13, 2023

    Could you help us understand why alerts sent out beyond UK day time would be deemed as false positives?

  • Guest
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    Jul 28, 2023

    Hi Sivasundar,

    "Volume monitoring" alerts I refer to the number of calls made to specific application/ kubernetes pod
    For example I need to observe if one pod is taking minimum 100 calls every hour - only during UK day time, we don't have an option to define the timeframe for the alerts to be active.

    Also we don't see seasonal/ adaptive thresholds in smart alert config.

  • Guest
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    Jul 28, 2023

    By "volume alerting", you are referring to throughput or number of calls made to a service or endpoint?

    Did you have a chance to try out seasonal or adaptive thresholds in Smart Alerts for Applications?

  • Guest
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    Jul 26, 2023

    On July 25th, NatWest requested IBM to please prioritise this Idea for an early resolution / development!