Enabling optional features for Standard Edition

Enable logging to use the full suite of Instana® logging features at no additional cost. For information about license requirements, see License and entitlement requirements. For more information about logging features, see Logging.

• To enable logging, run the following command:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.logging.enabled=true

• If you want to disable logging, run the following command:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.logging.enabled=false

For more information, see Synthetic monitoring.

• Enable Synthetic monitoring:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.synthetics.enabled=true
   

• Disable Synthetic monitoring:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.synthetics.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Managing actions.

• Enable Automation framework:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.automation.enabled=true
   

• Disable Automation framework:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.automation.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Business processes.

• Enable Business processes:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.business.observability.enabled=true
   

• Disable Business processes:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.business.observability.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Monitoring IBM® Power HMC.

• Enable IBM Power HMC:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.phmc.enabled=true
   

• Disable IBM Power HMC:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.phmc.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Monitoring IBM PowerVC.

• Enable IBM PowerVC:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.powervc.enabled=true
   

• Disable IBM PowerVC:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.powervc.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Monitoring IBM Z® HMC.

• Enable IBM Z HMC:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.zhmc.enabled=true
   

• Disable IBM Z HMC:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.zhmc.enabled=false
   

For more information about Linux KVM hypervisor, see Monitoring Linux KVM hypervisor.

• Enable Linux KVM hypervisor:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.linuxkvmhypervisor.enabled=true
   

• Disable Linux KVM hypervisor:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.linuxkvmhypervisor.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Monitoring IBM OpenStack.

• Enable OpenStack:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.openstack.enabled=true
   

• Disable OpenStack:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.openstack.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Monitoring Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu.

• Enable VMware Tanzu:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.pcf.enabled=true
   

• Disable VMware Tanzu:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.pcf.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Monitoring SAP.

• Enable SAP:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.sap.enabled=true
   

• Disable SAP:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.sap.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Smart Alerts for Infrastructure

• Enable Smart Alerts for Infrastructure (public preview):

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.infra.smart.alerts.enabled=true
   

• Disable Smart Alerts for Infrastructure (public preview):

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.infra.smart.alerts.enabled=false
   

For more information, see Monitoring vSphere.

• Enable VMware vSphere:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.vsphere.enabled=true
   

• Disable VMware vSphere:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.vsphere.enabled=false
   

For more information about Windows Hyper-V, see Monitoring Windows Hyper-V.

• Enable Windows Hyper-V:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.windowshypervisor.enabled=true
   

• Disable Windows Hyper-V:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.windowshypervisor.enabled=false
   

For more information about XenServer, see Monitoring XenServer.

• Enable XenServer:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.xenserver.enabled=true
   

• Disable XenServer:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.xenserver.enabled=false
   

Instana integrates WalkMe and AssistMe with the Get answers button in the UI to enhance the user experience. AssistMe provides integrated product assistance, displaying tours, articles, and quick links to documentation, community, and ticket management in one place, ensuring you receive help when needed.

Instana enables monitoring of the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler by default. However, you can disable this feature if not needed.

• Disable the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler monitoring:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.kubernetes.horizontal.pod.autoscaler.enable=false
   

Instana groups cassandra nodes by cluster name. Sometimes, the environment contains more than one cluster with the same name.

• Enable grouping nodes by seed IP addresses:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.group.cassandra.nodes.by.seed.ipaddresses=true
   

• Disable grouping nodes by seed IP addresses:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.group.cassandra.nodes.by.seed.ipaddresses=false
   

The ServiceNow ITSM (IT Service Management) app alert channel propagates alert notifications between Instana and ServiceNow application. For more information, see ServiceNow ITSM app

• Enable ServiceNow ITSM app alert channel:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.alert.channel.bidirectional.enabled=true
  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.service.now.advanced.enabled=true
   

• To disable the ServiceNow ITSM app alert channel, run:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.alert.channel.bidirectional.enabled=false
  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.service.now.advanced.enabled=false
   

You can configure the process plug-in to extract environment variables as tags. You can use these tags to filter or group data.

• To enable Process environment variable extraction:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.process.extract.environment.variables.tags.enabled=true

• To disable Process environment variable extraction:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.process.extract.environment.variables.tags.enabled=false

For more information, see Intelligent Remediation: Action generation with AI.

• Enable AI action generation:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.action.ai.generation.enabled=true

• Disable AI action generation:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.action.ai.generation.enabled=false

For more information, see AI gateway.

• Enable AI gateway:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.ai.gateway.enabled=true

• Disable AI gateway:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.ai.gateway.enabled=false

The incident summarization feature enables the summarization of an incident using AI. This feature is available from the Summary and notes with AI pane for an incident when you are viewing the incident details. For more information, see Incident summarization.

• Enable incident summarization:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.incident.ai.summarization.enabled=true

• Disable incident summarization

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.incident.ai.summarization.enabled=false

Intelligent incident investigation identifies the probable root cause (RCA) for an incident across your entire environment using agentic AI, causal AI analysis, and large language models (LLMs).

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In addition, your environment must also meet additional prerequisites. For more information about these requirements and the overall feature, see Intelligent incident investigation.

The Fast Triage feature helps find and display associations between EUM entities Monitoring websites, Monitoring mobile applications, andServices.

When you enable this feature, a Dependencies tab containing a relationship graph appears on the Website or Mobile App dashboard.

• Enable fast triage:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.match.calls.beacons.streaming.enabled=true

• Disable fast triage:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags eature.match.calls.beacons.streaming.enabled=false

The Kubernetes AI assistant feature enables AI-powered assistance on the Kubernetes cluster dashboard page. For more information about the feature, see Kubernetes AI assistant.

• Enable Kubernetes AI assistant:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.kubernetes.ai.agent.enabled=true

• Disable Kubernetes AI assistant:

  stanctl backend apply --core-feature-flags feature.kubernetes.ai.agent.enabled=false

The SLO Assistant feature generates summaries and explanations of an SLO by using AI. The feature is available on the SLO dashboard when you view SLO details for an SLO. To generate a summary, click Generate AI summarization. For more information about the feature, see AI-powered SLO analysis

The impacted users feature for Smart Alerts helps identify widespread performance issues by tracking how many users experience a certain condition.

Currently, the feature supports impacted users for:

• Websites
• Mobile applications
• Application perspectives with scope "For this application perspective"

For more information, see Impacted users for application perspective Smart Alerts, Impacted users for websites, and Impacted users for mobile apps.