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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 25, 2026

Ability to have Multi-Metric Smart Alerts for Applications. i.e Health Rules

Problem:
Customers migrating from AppDynamics rely on health rules that combine multiple metrics (latency, error rate, throughput) within a single alert. Instana currently limits application smart alerts to a single metric.

Proposed Capability:

  • Allow multiple metrics in one application smart alert
  • Support AND / OR conditions
  • Allow mixing:
    • Baseline deviation
    • Static thresholds
    • Floors (minimum traffic/error volume)
Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Apr 7, 2026

    While this is being added to Infrastructure Smart Alerts, to assure feature parity with custom events, and longer term we might expand into AP Smart alerts also supporting multiple conditional metrics, some of these use-cases will also be covered in revamped Incidents.

    Due to these factors it is very unlikely that we will be able to consider this for our roadmap in the next 12-18months