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Logging

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Support for getting Logs through API

In Instana we are able to get all data from the API but the logs. We need to expose an API to extract logs. This would also help to extend retention of logs outside Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Logging Amazon Kinesis to instana

Hello, A few details about this feature.It would be interesting to explore the possibility to connect from our Kinesis Data stream. We currently push logs with Json format via Kinesis to elasticsearch.The idea would be to be able to push these Jso...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Get EventId Info from Log.

Dears, It will be better to get EventId info from log file... We should get more info for an EventId from log files...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

instana ELK plugin is not working as expected if we use someother logshipper like vector

out setup Instana version : 241 Elastic version 8.2 Kibana : Stack Management 8.2.3 vector: 0.27.0-debian if I click on pod or container link as it launching the correct kibana dashboard without any logs as there are some issue in filter string it...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Provide level WARN for Docker version of Instana agent

In https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=requirements-installing-host-agent-docker#installation INSTANA_LOG_LEVEL does not provide the level WARN. I guess this is an issue and should be added. Esp. for consistency.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Add (java) context to logs

We're currently writing java logs with logback/slf4j. Using the logstash ArgumentsJsonProvider in our logback.xml this allows us to extend the log message with context information like stack_traces, logger_name, log level but also custom informati...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Custom keyword for ELK

I would like to have the possibility of changing the keyword that Instana uses when redirecting to Kibana The problem is that Instana uses keyword that Kibana does not find, so when redirecting no machine is found.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Integration with Logging tools - Scalyr

Feature Request: Integration with Logging tools to allow easy access to/from Instana.Tools: Scalyr Splunk.
about 5 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration