Submit complex IBM ELM JVM Mbeans or string based Mbeans as events or logs to Instana

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liberty profile. The IBM ELM development team gives recommendation for monitoring on specific health metrics which are advertised by the platform via Mbeans.

Simple numeric Mbeans can be easily added with the Instana JAVA Sensor. But there are also complex Mbeans that are created with either a nested structure or with string based information, which can not be added to Instana via the custom JMX metric approach.

These string based Mbeans are important for ELM customers to contextualize the information with the performance and health metrics.

This enhancement request is to add the information saved in nested and/or string based Mbeans from the ELM platform either via logs or Instana Events to the Instana backend and correlate the information with the metrics data.

Necessary enhancements:

Agent Event API approach

1. Extend the Instana agent technology detection to detect IBM ELM workloads correct.
2. If ELM components are detected on a host, query for complex ELM Mbeans that  are enabled for the component, e.g. "Custom Expensive Scenario" or "Expensive Scenario" and submit an Event for the Mbeans via Agent.
3. The mentioned Scenarios could run for a long time, i.e. keep the Event open for the lifetime of the Mbean.
4. Bring the event in context to the other Metrics of the IBM ELM platform (see INSTANA-I-2792)
5. Steps 2 to 4 need to be run continuously

Log approach

1. Extend the Instana agent technology detection to detect IBM ELM workloads correct.
2. If ELM components are detected on a host, query for complex ELM Mbeans that  are enabled for the component, e.g. "Custom Expensive Scenario" or "Expensive Scenario" and use the Otel log collector of Instana to collect the information as logs
3. Bring the logged Mbean information in context to the other metrics of the IBM ELM platform (see INSTANA-I-2792)