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Status Delivered
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert Logging
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 19, 2023

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Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts.

Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solution.

Allowing Instana to create Events to make Alerts based upon application/components specific error logs may facilitate to quickly identify known issues, for which subsequently the Automation feature can be used to run a Script that tries to remediate the error condition. This will make an awesome complement to the solution, as one can focus in user/developer "known" information (error messages) in addition to metrics based upon frameworks. In other words, sometimes the metrics may not be evident enough of a problem than having an error message.

Idea priority High
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    Máté Návay
    Aug 13, 2025

    Since the release of our Logs in Context feature and Log Smart Alerts this should be possible.
    Creating a Log Smart Alert and than defining an Automation action to remediate are available in Instana.

    Adding Logs into the custom Events feature is not considered, but Smart Alerts can also be managed through Alert routing rules and actions can be defined directly for Smart Alerts I'm marking the idea as shipped.

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