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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 25, 2025

Allow events to be cloned as a custom event

At present if someone likes a certain built-in event but wants to apply a scope to it or change the threshold they need to create the event from scratch. But you can easily add a clone button to create a new custom event, suing the bult-in event as a template. saving a lot of time. This can be another button on the side of the enable/disable button on the events view or within the vent details view. 

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Sep 2, 2025

    Most built-in events rely on highly customized conditions and sensor code which cannot be replicated as a simple metric-threshold pair.
    As such, these cannot be recreated as a customized version, either as custom event or smart alert.

    For ones that are a straightforward metric-threshold pair, we are planning to add them as (or be replicable) smart alerts in the future.