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Status Submitted
Workspace Instana
Categories Extend Capabilities
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 19, 2025

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (date/time and entity).

Let's say i have a daily backup procedure that runs on my IBMi, and that backup procedure (e.g. a BRMS Control Group) shuts down a few customer subsystem to get a consistent backup, or an interactive subsystem to prevent users from locking objects.

If i have an automation policy set to restart a subsystem whenever it's down, in the current way that the Maintenance works, i will only be able to suppress the alert coming from the subsystem inactive event, and the automation policy to restart it will be still triggered. 

While it can still be ok to receive events (that would still be false-positive for this case), running the automation policy when a maintenance window is set would defeat the purpose of having the maintenance set in the first place. As for the events, if those can't be completely suppressed, it would be nice to have them in a way that you can understand that are falling within a maintenance window (not having them at all would probably be the best?)


Being able to decide what does the maintenance do would be much more beneficial, so that i can choose what to suppress, without incurring in unexpected behaviors. 


It would be then nice to have a simple additional menu on the maintenance window configuration page where to tick what to suppress, being those alerts (which is what is currently suppressed), events (as in, no events will show), automation policy tied to events coming from the agent (as in, nothing will run in response to events generated during that window).

 


 

Idea priority High