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Status Delivered
Workspace Instana
Categories Extend Capabilities
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 25, 2026

Add Native Alert Ownership and Metadata

Problem:
Instana lacks first-class ownership metadata for alerts. Relying on custom payloads in the alert.

Proposed Capability:

  • Owner/team field on alerts
  • Tag-based filtering
  • Alert inventory and export APIs
Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Apr 7, 2026

    As alert configurations can apply to several or even aggregated entities, a direct ownership concept for these configurations is not planned.
    We are adding more visibility of Team association tags on Smart Alert configs, when the entities being alerted on have any team association tags on them.
    This currently applies to Websites, mobile apps, synthetic tests and SLO alerts. Applications, Infra and Logs will be getting team associations likely later this year.

    Visibility of alert configs is already controlled by access to the entities alerted on (ie limited user needs to have access to the website they want to see/create smart alerts for) so this is more aimed at admins having some additional context on who the relevant team for an alert config or even the triggered issue/incident is.