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Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 4 Delivered

Views - Can't see who is using

CLOUDY-I-156 was closed as delivered, but only part of request was delivered, the who created part. I had also requested insight into who is using View. As an Admin, if I want to delete a View, I need to understand who is using it as a default Vie...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2 Delivered

Views - Can't see who created/using

Admins can't see who created a given View and who is using. We are left with stale Views do to not being able to validate if still in use or if a View is owned by someone that is no longer with company or changed roles. Also a way to easily downlo...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Views 4 Delivered

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 4 Delivered

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

Assign a view to a Frontdoor Role

In Cloudability, when editing a View to assign to users, the customer wants to have the option to assign the View to a Frontdoor Role as well. As for now, only individual users can be assigned to Views.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2 Delivered

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Delivered

Support of Data Leak Protection for Logging

In regards of the incident, ticket : https://instana.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/24625 ouiSNCF is asking for the support of a DLP Data Leak Prtotection for Logging.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Delivered

Request to Add a description Feild for View option

We observed that for the VIEWS we are unable to have a description field where we can update details of what is the purpose of the view – We set up a lot of views in our environment and this would be useful for us to remember the reason and/or del...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2 Delivered