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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 ...
14 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information

Controlling instana default events (change, online, offline)

if possible to shut down some change/online/offline events similar to the control over default events in the Events page. To clarify this, controlling change/online/offline events to be sent to the alert channel and appear in alert dashboard but n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Self Hosted Needs more information

[GOV][INSTANA][PROD][PLATFORM] Feature Request: Automated Log Retention Policy for Instana

Hi Team, We are currently experiencing frequent disk utilization issues in our Production Instana environment. At present, we are relying on manual cleanup activities every month to maintain stability. While we have a temporary workaround in place...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Needs more information