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Alerting based on content of logs

Some erroneous calls might be considered OK based on the logs of that call, so with the new feature we should be able to alert only when specific logs appear and also exclude some logs from generating an alert. This way the client could reduce the...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 4 Not under consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Add Instana API for application event and log messges

We have clients need to get useful info from Instana API, currently there is no API for Application -> Log Message and Application -> Error Message, can you please help to add those APIs?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 2 Future consideration

ATUM dimensions should be available in TrueCost Explorer dimensions

Recently multiple ATUM dimensions were added as standard dimensions in our Cldy environment. It would be usefull if those dimensions were available in TrueCost explorer feature in the Insights tab. Enabling that would allow us to fully understand ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Other 0 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...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

Add Instance type and family dimensions to the IBMC data

We don't see this data for IBMC today, but it's essential for monitoring and managing the resources.We want to create a report for AI / GPU usage by flavor, but we can't because we don't have any data on the instance that can help with this.This i...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Resource Inventory 3 Future consideration

More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

Ingest Organization structure defined in GCP and AWS

This will allow for better organization of data based on the Organizational Unit Hierarchy defined in GCP and AWS
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Planned for future release

GCP - Dimension for Project Number

Cloudability currently picks up Project Name and Project ID, but not Project Number.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Not under consideration

Map Azure Resource Name in the Resource Name Dimension

Populate the Resource Name Dimension in with the Resource Name provided by Azure
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration