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Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 4 Delivered

ApptioBI report filter add scroll bar

As a builder of ApptioBI reports, I find that there are often many filters needed. Sometimes too many for the screen to show all at once. It is not obvious to most of my users that some of these are therefore hidden, nor how to reach those additio...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Delivered

Enable hyperlinks in text boxes in Apptio BI reports

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add those URLs as plain text. The user needs to higlight, copy and paste into the browse...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Delivered

Display Values Directly on Treemap Visualization in Apptio BI

In the Treemap visualization in Apptio BI, the values are only visible when we hover over individual sections. This is inconvenient, especially when we need to capture or share the chart. It would be more effective if the values were displayed dir...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 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

Change chart values text to something that is easily readable

Currently the chart values feature is ugly at best and most of the time illegible. Ideally the text size colour etc would be selectable, but if that isn't possible please can they remove the white background and be larger
12 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 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...
6 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

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

Update .ssa-jss5391 to wrap text

.ssa-jss5391 { overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-wrap: auto; } can you please change ssa-jss5391 to the values I shared previously? some of our metrics are to large to fit on the webpage and we cannot see the full name and we cannot use ...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 5 Delivered