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Status Delivered
Workspace Instana
Categories Alert Logging
Created by Guest
Created on May 22, 2025

Include custom payload for Log monitoring

We are able to configure smart alerts for logs but Instana does not support adding custom payload to log smart alerts.

Lack of custom payload for log alerts is depriving us from knowing from which application the log is being triggered (We have 17 applications configured on distributed environment and we are unable to make out which application log is firing the alert).

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Jun 12, 2025

    Log Smart Alerts support dynamic custom payloads since release 293.
    Application correlation is being worked on by the logging team and is unrelated to custom payloads. Grouping by or filtering based on Application perspective will be added.