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Logging

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Logging Level Info

Hello, Today the feature 'Logs' provide only warning and error log levels.We would find it valuable to also have a log level info because it provides a lot of contextual infos. One thing to point out is that if log levels info would be tracked in ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations for ELK or others. Use-case, one can have different dashboards for different purposes, currently you can only setup one.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Option to add multiple Humio repositories for log monitoring

There are many use cases where there is no single repository for an entire cluster in Humio. Each application/team have their own repository in Humio but the application is running on the same kubernetes cluster (e.g., Production). Instana, right ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 5 Future 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...
12 months 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.
about 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...
about 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,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI from log management tools alike we now have the ability to access the logs based on infra entities.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Functionality already exists