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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert
Created by Guest
Created on May 29, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Add contains/regex/wildcard support to Custom Event DFQ / metric pattern conditions

To support the migration from IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) to Instana, ITM Situation threshold formulas which contain the SCAN function cannot be migrated. 

The ITM SCAN function searches for a value or partial value anywhere in text or timestamp attributes, using the == operator with wildcard support (* and ?).  There is no equivalent pattern matching for this in Instana Custom Events using the dynamic focus query (DFQ), and only limited support using "contains" in Smart alerts (not all patterns can be matched and for those which can, the smart alert does not include all the metrics  available to implement the equivalent threshold).

Example use of the SCAN function in ITM Situation formulas:

  1. *SCAN Queue_Statistics.Queue_Name *EQ .INITQ
  2. *SCAN Queue_Status.Queue_Name *EQ 'P.*_HUB.INSTR_REQ'
  3. *SCAN Channel_Statistics.Channel_Name *EQ 'SYSTEM.*'
  4. *SCAN Error_Log.Message_ID *EQ 'AMQ*'
  5. SCAN Process.Process_Command_U *EQ '*/opt/IBM/tivoli/Impact/wlp/bin/tools/ws-server.jar ImpactUI'
  6. *SCAN Disk.Mount_Point *EQ '/ihs*'

 

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Jun 1, 2026

    Custom events are being superseded by Smart Alerts, specifically in this case Infrastructure Smart Alerts, which already offers the RegEx option for metric selection, with grouping and regex based placeholders in Title and description fields.

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