Enabling optional features for Standard Edition

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, see Monitoring 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
   

To enhance the user experience, WalkMe and AssistMe are integrated with the Get answers button in the Instana UI. AssistMe provides integrated product assistance. It displays relevant tours, articles, and quick links to documentation, community, and ticket management in one place to make sure that you receive help when needed.

The monitoring of Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler is enabled 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
   

For more information about the logging feature, see Logging.

• Enable logging.

  When you enable logging, you can use the following features in Standard Edition. You don't need an additional license to use these features. For the logging features that need an add-on license, see Add-on logging capabilities.

  • Smart Alerts for logs (only for logs that originate from Instana tracers). For more information, see Logging Smart Alerts.
  • Unbounded analytics for logs (only for logs that originate from Instana tracers). For more information, see Analyzing logs.
  • Summary of the current retention period, log volume, and log count. For more information, see Summary.

  To enable logging, run the following command:

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

• Disable logging.

  To disable logging, run the following command:

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

The process plugin can be configured to extract environment variables as tags. These tags can be used to filter or group upon.

• 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 (public preview).

• 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 (public preview).

• 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