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Workspace Instana
Categories Logging
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 17, 2025

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Allow multiple config files for the OTEL collector

As well as the regular tracing and host information collection, the config file contains all the log parsing and processing information for every log file that the collector must work. 

A customer I am working with who is looking to migrate from ITM has many separate ITM format files, each one pretty large that they apply to servers based on the applications that are producing logs on that device. Having separate files helps them to manage the configuration of the monitoring of the servers.
If they could seperate the OTEL config files in a similar way this would make Instana seem more manageable. Currently the Idea of one huge config.yaml file is off putting to them.

OTEL itself supports multiple config files but the Instana implementation doesn't seem to. This is probably to do with the supervisor process that launches the collector.
 

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Paras Kampasi
    Jan 14, 2026

    Please add more context.
    Are you using Instana agent with OTel collectors? Or are you using collector yaml and agent yaml simultaneously?
    We have a new preview feature where you can visualize the telemetry pipelines for OTel collectors within Instana and also push new configuration to your collectors using OpAMP.
    Please confirm, looking forward to your response.

    Kind regards,
    Paras Kampasi

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  • Guest
    Jan 7, 2026

    We would like to request a feature in Instana that allows administrators to centrally view and manage agent configurations.

    Support for multiple OpenTelemetry configuration files with regex-based logfile matching in the Instana agent would help address scaling issues during production rollouts.

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  • Guest
    Jan 7, 2026

    Please consider developing a feature in Instana that allows administrators to view and manage agent configurations centrally.

    Currently, enabling support for multiple OpenTelemetry configuration files with regex-based logfile matching in the Instana agent would help address scaling challenges. This enhancement would simplify production rollouts by allowing diverse log patterns to be managed and deployed across agent machines more efficiently.

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  • Guest
    Jan 7, 2026

    Kindly consider to develop a functionality in instana where admins can see and control the agent configurations. Given the current scenario if instana agent can support multiple open telemetry files configurations for a Regex pattern match for logfiles. this will resolve Scaling issue during production roll-out of all kind of patterns on agents machines from instana.

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