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Search results: Logging

Add Export Feature on Logs page

Currently, the Logs tab shows logs with filter options but no ability to download. On many occassions, besides reviewing the logs, we need to download the logs. Be it to supply to IBM Support team, to share with extended team members, or to docume...
11 days ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

Enable granular agent-level control to selectively enable/disable log collection and transmission in Instana, allowing customers to manage logging overhead

Why is it useful? Who would benefit from it? How should it work? CURRENT SITUATION: ------------------ In Instana , the Logging Feature operates in an all-or-nothing manner: • All agents continuously send logs to the backend regardless of the feat...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

creating log level alerts directly from infra tab

in the log maps it would be easier to create logs directly from clicking logs to alert on , as smart alerts just give us the number of http calls .. we need log alerting
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

BeeInstana‑Status im Instana‑Operator‑Log anzeigen

uring the deployment of the Instana backend, the operator log records the status of all databases – except BeeInstana. This creates confusion and hampers monitoring. Consolidate all database information in a single placeProvide full transparency d...
2 months ago in Instana / Logging

Highlighting the matching query-term in search results

When i search for a text in the logs that are stored in Instana, in the result there is currently no highlighting of the part in the log-message that matches my query-term. I would argue that it is state of the art to highlight the query term in t...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging Under review

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 IT...
6 months ago in Instana / Logging Planned for future release

Metrics based on log file filters

Hello Team, we have a customer who needs to analyse appearing of certain records in a log files to make file monitoring more efficient. Our IDOT has "filelog" receiver, but misses connectors like "countconnector", "sumconnector", etc. to perform c...
6 months ago in Instana / Logging Future consideration

Enable Application Log Retention Beyond 90 Days

Background The retention period for application logs is currently limited to a maximum of 90 days.Other APM products allow configuring retention for more than 90 days and provide log archiving features, such as offloading logs to external storage ...
7 months ago in Instana / Logging Future consideration

Smart alert for log volumetry

Create a smart alert based on log volumetry. The idea is to have an alert before reaching the threshold of logs in context add on which is 1 TiB / month
7 months ago in Instana / Logging Future consideration

Ability to view logs after agent loss

It would be interesting to be able to view an agent's logs from the SaaS in order to analyze the reason for its loss. Currently, logs can only be viewed when the agent is reporting to the SaaS, but it would be good to be able to analyze the last m...
7 months ago in Instana / Logging Not under consideration