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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 15, 2024

Instana grouping in Analyze Calls for Smart Alert Event by blueprint template

If you jump from smart alert event to analytc by clicking on "Analyze Calls" the predefined grouping seems to be defaulted to 'by endpoint'.
It would help a lot if grouping would be done by templated blueprint criteria.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
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    Feb 26, 2024

    For the Logs blueprint we should be able to change to default grouping by log.message (as when alerting for just one log.level, grouping by level wouldn't be helpful)

    As for HTTP code blueprint we'll need to still check how common alert configs are where a single status code is used, as in this case too, grouping for just a single code would be suboptimal.

  • Guest
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    Feb 20, 2024

    Hello Mate, many thanks for the clarification. In our case blueprint would be Logs or Http Status Code. For blueprint Logs grouping by log.level or better log.message, for blueprint Http Status Code by http.status would be favourable.

  • Admin
    Máté Návay
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    Feb 20, 2024

    So, we do have some different groupings already. We just checked Smart Alerts for Applications to have the following:
    For Slowness blueprint: no grouping

    • For per-AP alerting: grouping by service.name

    • For per-Service alerting, or narrowed down to a single service by ID: by endpoint.name

    • For per-Endpoint alerting: by call.name

    • When scoped to a single endpoint: no grouping

    • For Throughput blueprint:

    • if expression-filter contains tags about service/endpoint: group by endpoint.name, otherwise service.name

    • Else: use default grouping from UA: endpoint.name

    So, if you have some specific examples where you'd like to see a different default grouping, please let me know and we can see if it's something we could add.

  • Guest
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    Feb 19, 2024

    e.g. if the smart alert is built on blueprint log the "Analyze Calls" predefined grouping could be by log message or on blueprint http-code by http code (your example). Does this make sense!?

  • Admin
    Máté Návay
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    Feb 19, 2024

    Could you please provide an example on which blueprint you'd like this?
    I can think of HTTP errors to group by the error codes, but other blueprints may not have a straightforward grouping possibility.