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Include AWS Lambda Functions with detailed metadata in Resource Inventory

We would like to request the inclusion of AWS Lambda functions in the Cloudability Resource Inventory, along with relevant metadata such as runtime version, memory size, timeout configuration and associated tags. This would enable improved visibil...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Delivered

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

Saving Templates and Sharing Filters for Resource Inventory

USCIS customers find resource inventory useful but must recreate all filters each time they access this section. They would like the ability to save filter configurations as templates and share them with other users in their organization, similar ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Delivered

Expand the AWS Service Coverage in Cloudability Resource Inventory for Broader FinOps Visibility

Currently in Cloudability , the Resource Inventory supports a limited set of AWS Services (EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, RedShift). Expanding support to include additional AWS services eg lambda , DynamoDB and others ) would provide us with more comprehensiv...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 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...
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

GCP Utilization Data Reporting

helpful to create dashboards recommended by Deloitte in Unifai WP2 These dashboard can help to find optimization opprotunities
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 2 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

Resource Inventory Statistical Filtering Needs to Include Views and standard filters into consideration

Currently, applying a view or standard filters to the results of the Statistical Filtering will only display results if an object is within the results applied at the Statistical Filtering. This feature also needs to be able to apply a view or sta...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 3 Delivered