Logs are a critical part of observability. They help teams understand what happened, when it happened, and why it happened. But when logs sit in a separate tool from metrics and traces, incident response can slow down. Engineers lose time switching context, chasing disconnected signals, and manually piecing together what went wrong.

Today, IBM Instana helps close that gap.

For self-hosted deployments, log management is included within the standard Instana license at no additional cost. This decision helps teams bring logs, metrics and traces together in the same Instana experience and investigate issues with more complete context.

Bring logs closer to the rest of your telemetry

Modern environments are distributed by design. Teams operate across Kubernetes, containers, bare metal and hybrid infrastructure. Logs can come from many places, and observability platforms need to meet teams where their workloads already run.

Instana supports log ingestion from key sources including:

• OpenTelemetry
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• CRI-O

·      Applications (via OpenTelemetry and Trace Logs)

Whether your team runs containerized microservices, bare-metal workloads or a mix of both, Instana can help bring log data into the same environment where teams already monitor performance, traces, events and infrastructure.

Log Management

Instana Logging is not just about collecting and storing logs. It gives teams log management capabilities inside the same observability workflow they already use to monitor applications, infrastructure, services, events and traces.

Capabilities include:

• Role-based access control to help manage which users can access specific logs
• Smart Alerts to surface anomalies before they become incidents
• Live Tailing to stream logs in real time directly in the Instana UI
• Log Analytics to search, filter and investigate log data across the environment

Together, these capabilities help teams move from raw log data to actionable insights without jumping between tools. For self-hosted, air-gapped and compliance-sensitive environments, that means full log observability with your data staying exactly where it already lives.

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Enable Logging in your self-hosted environment today and bring your observability data together in one place.