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Status Under review
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 3, 2026

Custom Plugin Monitoring Attributes unavailable in Events & Alerts

When windows os services are added to monitoring using host plugin as below, it discovers service name, service state but these important parameters are not available to be used in Events and Alert.


Service State is available as metric to create an Event, but Service Name and Service State are are available to be used a variables in alert names or in Alert notification payload.


With out this functionality, we are unable to generate an event to state which OS Service is having issue.


com.instana.plugin.host:
tags:
- 'production'
- 'app1'
winServiceRegex: '^SNMP.*'


It would be good to have the entities details available in events and alerts.

Idea priority High