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Instana should support LOKI as a log source

The latest versions of the OpenShift Logging Operator have dropped support for ElasticSearch and have moved over to LOKI. Instana needs to be able to use LOKI as a log integration source in order for us to maintain a vendor supported logging model...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

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

Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Planned for future release

more nuanced anomaly detection report

similar functionality to aws cost explorer. edit time range, more details around cost spikes by services, ability to drill down.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Ability to Send Anomaly Alerts to multiple people

Currently everyone who wants to receive alerts on anomalies has to create their own email alerts because it only sends to yourself. It would be helpful to be able to add multiple people to an anomaly email alert so that multiple people can get not...

Services and applications should support opentelemetry logs

Application Perspectives (and Services) cannot currently display logs ingested from OTEL, even though the logs are mapped to a service. We raised support case TS020036806 which was closed with the advice to submit an Aha idea for this to go to our...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 0

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Send Anomaly Detection Alerts to Account Owners

Our internal Cloud Optimization team would like to use the Anomaly Detection API to send alerts to the owners of accounts that have an anomaly. As of right now you can only set up Anomaly Subscriptions for the API key you are working under. This e...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0

Monitoring custom log files in AIX

We are configuring Instana on a customer's core banking solution. Most of the services in this environment are deployed on AIX servers. We noticed that some very important process logs are not captured by Instana so we tried the Open telemetry onl...
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 8 Planned for future release