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Publish Standard Self hosted air-gapped packages available to download via http

Dear Colleagues, we have several customers with strict security policies refusing them from granting Internet access to environments where Instana backend runs. Hence everytime they struggle with downloading air-gapped package of 25Gb in size now....
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Need the ability to generate an air-gapped package from a desktop/laptop system

Many of our customers do not have a Linux server with internet access that can be used to generate the air-gapped package that is necessary for a Standard Edition installation. They have Linux servers, but there are firewalls that prevent access. ...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

stanctl install path for air-gapped and non-air-gapped need to be the same

The customer initially did their Standard Edition install using the air-gapped package. Per the installation instructions, stanctl is placed in /usr/local/bin. Later, the customer was able to get the Instana repos white listed and changed to onlin...
30 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Standard Edition preflight check must report all known prereq issues

Currently, when the preflight check is executed, it only reports a subset of the problems. For example, I ran the preflight check on a brand new machine Red Hat with nothing setup. This is what got reported. ⚠️ the host for installation type demo ...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information

Standard Edition sizing must take into account HPA

The sizing in the documentation and our sizing tools must take into account HPA auto-scaling. We've had environments with customers where the HPA created editional pods to the point where pods are getting evicted. Two things should happen: The HPA...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

API-Based Configuration Export and Import for Backend Configuration Management

Hi, while defining a staging strategy for a highly regulated banking environment to deploy and run Instana backends, we ran into the challenge how to promote configurations from a dev/staging backend to the production one: Problem Statement As a c...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
11 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

Add `stanctl plan` sub-command for planning stuff (e.g. upgrade, storage) in day 2

It’s a huge pain point nowadays when tying to do some day 2 operations at Instana backend. For example, when trying to upgrade to one desired version from current installed version, there might be a few “jumps”, based on the “upgrade from” info, t...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

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