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Ability to view logs after agent loss

It would be interesting to be able to view an agent's logs from the SaaS in order to analyze the reason for its loss. Currently, logs can only be viewed when the agent is reporting to the SaaS, but it would be good to be able to analyze the last m...
2 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Ability to set up/receive Budget Alerts

The ability to set up and receive budget alert emails is not enabled in the Gov Cldy version. It would be beneficial to be able to set up alerts to compare actual spending to a defined budget/forecast. Would it be possible to make the budget alert...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Add Otel tags in log volume Analysis

Add Open Telemetry tags filter group in log volume to facilite analysis volumetry sent directly to Instana Backend (without passing through Instana Agent)
8 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Would like logging in audit log for when an agent is changed from info to debug

Would like for when someone changes the agent log level from info to debug to be logged in the audit trail
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Use Selected Time Period to Populate AutoFill Lists in Filter on a report or dashboard

My understanding is that the last two months of data are used to populate the autofill values on the filter dimensions. For example, if I select Jan - Jun 2025 in the date selection and then add Month (Year) as a filter, the autofill options are 2...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Provide more details on the Apptio help center

Rightsizing in Cloudability (apptio.com) Currently the apptio help center doesn't include a comprehensive explaination on idle resource, such as the how to define S3 idle percentage, which will affect the user experience.

Add assignment option at policy creation

When creating policies, there is no option to select an assignee. If the policy creates 250 cloudability issues, then we have to go through each task and manually add the assignee. It would be incredibly helpful to select the assignee name at poli...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted