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Status Under review
Workspace Instana
Categories Synthetic
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 17, 2026

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Enhancing Instana Synthetic Monitoring with Latency-Based Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests provide smart alerts primarily based on execution status (success/failure). While this is valuable, it limits the ability to proactively detect performance degradation that occurs before failures.

We propose extending Smart Alerts to include latency-based conditions, allowing users to trigger alerts when response times deviate from a defined baseline or dynamic threshold. This could include:

  • Alerts based on static thresholds (e.g., response time > X ms)

  • Alerts based on deviation from historical baselines (e.g., +30% above normal latency)

  • Support for percentile-based metrics (e.g., P95, P99 latency)

  • Adaptive anomaly detection using trend analysis

This capability would enable earlier detection of performance issues, improve user experience monitoring, and align synthetic testing with real-world performance expectations—not just availability.

Adding latency-aware alerting would significantly enhance Instana’s proactive observability and help teams act before incidents impact users.

Idea priority High

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