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Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 4 Delivered

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 4 Delivered

Include custom payload for Log monitoring

We are able to configure smart alerts for logs but Instana does not support adding custom payload to log smart alerts. Lack of custom payload for log alerts is depriving us from knowing from which application the log is being triggered (We have 17...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

Installing from OpenShift Registry

Commonly the cloud paks require a big space on HDD (tar.gz files, the uncompress process, the load into the local docker registry, Why not try to load the same file (tar.gz) into the openshift registry? and from this point launch the installer (in...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Delivered

Quantify Risk Across the Components (Clusters, VMs, Apps)

Today clients or service providers are not able to quantify the risk across the components of their enterprise due to the following challenges: Compliance is a complex process covering many security processes including but not limited to Patching,...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

MCM to provide the choice of deploying multiple version of OCP cluster on AWS

Details: Currently via MCM we cannot provision different version of Openshift cluster on AWS as the version is dependent on the openshift-installer binary and which is a static value in multicluster-hub-cluster-api-provider-ocp microservice.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered

Solve cookie caching problem that impacts application monitoring

Since the inception of the BOD we have consistently seen problems with some of the embedded UIs, especially ICAM, because their cookie lifecycles are not aligned with the parent MCM UI. This means users will sometimes get prompted for a login when...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

Create App YAML that spans Containers, VMs and Cloud Services.

Allow definition of and Application Yaml that spans, Containers, VMS, Cloud services. and allows SLAs to be defined across them.
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Delivered