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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert
Created by Guest
Created on May 27, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Allow Customization or Duplication of Built-in Events in Instana

We are currently experiencing a high number of false positives generated by Instana’s built-in events, which leads us to completely disregard them and instead rely on custom events or smart alerts. The main limitation is that built-in events cannot be edited, tuned, or duplicated with different thresholds, which makes it difficult to adapt them to real operational needs.

This situation reduces the practical value of built-in events, as they cannot be adjusted to match the specific behavior and tolerance levels of different environments. As a result, teams are forced to recreate similar logic using custom configurations, increasing complexity and operational overhead.

The proposed improvement is to make built-in events customizable or at least allow them to be duplicated and modified, including threshold adjustments. This would allow us to retain the built-in logic provided by Instana while adapting it to our context, improving signal quality, reducing noise, and increasing overall efficiency in incident detection and response.

Idea priority High
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    Máté Návay
    Jun 1, 2026

    Built-in events are often based on highly custom sensors coda and thus do not allow customization. This is why custom events were introduced and are now superseded by Smart Alerts, which allow a wide range of customization.
    As not all of the built-in configurations can be replicated with Smart Alerts, the only option on these remains to disable the built-in event rule.

    We're planning to offer the built-in events where a simple metric-threshold pair can be used as an out of the box Smart Alert, instead of the non-configurable built-in event option in the future.

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