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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Logging Self Hosted
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 15, 2022

RELATED IDEAS

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.
Could we please document how to set up K8s logging when setting up a backend with using the docker-based backend.

My customer uses a Helm deployment of the agent, and there is no documentation of how to set up the logging pipeline for logging on docker.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Hubert Hesse
    Reply
    |     Jan 26, 2023

    Hi Farhad,

    the logging feature (as well as the new synthetic monitoring feature) will not make it to docker-based installations, because of resource constraints of docker-based installations.
    You will need to switch to an Instana Kubernetes Operator backend as you correctly linked.

    Best

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 13, 2023

    And I just realised the source of confusion maybe. Apologies, as the original Idea mentions Helm deployment, which is incorrect. it is a multi-host Docker Backend

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 13, 2023

    Hi Hubert,

    In this case, it is a multi-host Docker installation.

    My understanding is that the logging feature uses a separate CH Schema which currently only gets set up when instana is deployed via the operator. So on a multi-host Docker installation (or any other on-prem installation that is not operator based), if I enable collection of docker logs in the agent, the agent will collect, but backend will not process them as the pipeline for it does not exist.

    Hope this makes sense.

  • Admin
    Hubert Hesse
    Reply
    |     Jan 13, 2023

    Hi Farhad,

    can you provide more context on how the customer is setting up the backend? Which helm chart or deployment are you referring too?
    Just to clarify, the customer is using the Instana Kubernetes Operator?

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