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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

Off button for log entry

Customers want to have control to stop log intake in case they are approaching the maximum log intake purchased. To date, there is no mechanism to stop logs from being sent to Instana.
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Add 'Service name' dimension in cloudability Views

At present I can only use the following 3 core dimensions when creating a view: -Account Id -Account Name -Vendor Could we please add a dimension of 'Service name' so that we can create Service Level views.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Views 1

PII Masking is required for collected Kubernetes log message in Instana SaaS.

My customer, LG U Plus started using App monitoring based on the platform, "Kubernetes". Instana agents are collecting data including Kubernetes log messages and sending them to Instana backend SaaS. The issue resides in Logs collected and saved, ...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

To upload a spreadsheet to create Views

Need easy functionality to create logic in view, very difficult with current API and UI setup
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Under review

Allow Business Metrics to be used as a Filter in Views

Allowing Business Metrics to be used as a View Filter will allow the customer to better control the default data seen by users by combining this request with the existing ability to set a default View for users.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Add Views for Business Mapping

Southwest Airlines FinOps team utilizes Business Mappings and is aware that some tooling doesn't support the View setup with a Business Mapping.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Support Combined AND/OR Logic in Views for Advanced Filtering

Enhance the Views functionality in Cloudability to allow the use of both AND and OR conditions together within the same filter set. Current limitation: A view can only use either AND or OR logic, not both. Impact: This prevents combining different...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 3 Under review