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Logging

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Parse json formatted logs to generate fields and extract log level

We're writing lot's of logs in json format as this is very helpful with other log management solutions (Graylog2, Datadog) to parse these logs into fields and have very searchable data. This would be necessary for us to further use Instana Log ana...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 2

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

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under 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

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

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

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

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...
over 1 year 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.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration