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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert MQ
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 28, 2024

Instana events do not support adding more than five metric conditions.

Some of the situations in my customers data is comprised of more than five conditions that Instana do not support today.
I am working on ITM2Instana modernisation offering and we need to transform customer's ITM data into Instana e-g, situation (events in Instana terminology). Customer today have some complex conditions in their situations (events) where more than five metric conditions are added within one events metrics formula and bound together with an `AND` or a 'OR' conditions. It appears that the current limit is set to 5 metric conditions in Instana, which blocks IBM moving forward and transition the customers fully into Instana realm of observability and monitoring. See below some of the examples however, I can share more if needed.

There is only one option to choose for the agent types above, however, there are many agent types where customers have such conditions with AND/OR operators.

<PDT> *IF ( ( *VALUE Linux_Disk.Mount_Point *EQ '/var' *AND *VALUE Linux_Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 85 ) *OR ( *VALUE Linux_Disk.Mount_Point *EQ '/var/lib/containers' *AND *VALUE Linux_Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 85 ) *OR ( *VALUE Linux_Disk.Mount_Point *EQ '/var/lib/docker' *AND *VALUE Linux_Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 85 ) *OR ( *VALUE Linux_Disk.Mount_Point *EQ '/var/lib/etcd' *AND *VALUE Linux_Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 85 ) *OR ( *VALUE Linux_Disk.Mount_Point *EQ '/var/lib/openshift' *AND *VALUE Linux_Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 85 ) *OR ( *VALUE Linux_Disk.Mount_Point *EQ '/var/lib/origin' *AND *VALUE Linux_Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 85 ) *OR ( *VALUE Linux_Disk.Mount_Point *EQ '/var/log' *AND *VALUE Linux_Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 85 ) *OR ( *VALUE Linux_Disk.Mount_Point *EQ '/var/log/journal' *AND *VALUE Linux_Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 85 ) ) </PDT>

EWH_DB2_aix_prod_crt:

<PDT><![CDATA[*IF ( ( *SCAN Disk.Mount_Point_U *EQ 'emcmprod' *AND *SCAN Disk.Mount_Point_U *NE 'tempspace' *AND *VALUE Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 95 *AND *VALUE Disk.Space_Used_Percent *LT 98 ) *OR ( *SCAN Disk.Mount_Point_U *EQ 'ewhprod2' *AND *SCAN Disk.Mount_Point_U *NE 'tempspace' *AND *VALUE Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 95 *AND *VALUE Disk.Space_Used_Percent *LT 98 ) *OR ( *SCAN Disk.Mount_Point_U *EQ 'idlprod' *AND *SCAN Disk.Mount_Point_U *NE 'tempspace' *AND *VALUE Disk.Space_Used_Percent *GE 95 *AND *VALUE Disk.Space_Used_Percent *LT 98 ) )]]></PDT>

KIM_IDS_Problem_Undef_Emer: (IM)

*IF ( (*VALUE KIM_ALARMS.severity *EQ 5 ) *AND ( *VALUE                 KIM_ALARMS.class *NE 20 ) *AND ( *VALUE KIM_ALARMS.class *NE 22 ) *AND  ( *VALUE KIM_ALARMS.class *NE 24 ) *AND ( *VALUE KIM_ALARMS.class *NE   26 ) *AND ( *VALUE KIM_ALARMS.class *NE 27 ) *AND ( *VALUE              KIM_ALARMS.class *NE 28 ) *AND ( *VALUE KIM_ALARMS.class *NE 44 ) *AND  ( *VALUE KIM_ALARMS.class *NE 45 ) *AND ( *VALUE KIM_ALARMS.class *NE   46 ) )

Idea priority High