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Metrics not available for Customer Alerts

Built in Events can't be modified and not all metrics available for custom alert configuration. This is a blocker for enterprise wide threshold governance.
5 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Log SmartAlert Grouping limitation

Currently the log alert grouping is limited to a single dimension. GlobleLife is advanced used and require multi-dimentionsl grouping using Application, environment, host, error type, database, and support team. This will allow them to send the al...
5 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

File based monitoring to check if the file exists

Currently the file plugin in Instana agent does not have the capability to check if a file exist or not. For critical monitoring scenarios, it is important to check if a file exist or not and alert for production environment.
9 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Equals (=) Operator in Smart Alert Threshold

With in the Smart Alerts, for any metrics that holds multiple values and we need alert for only one value and this functionality needs equals ( = ) operator which is not available in Smart Alerts. Having equals operator available for thresholds wi...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

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 a...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted