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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...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

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....
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Access to public Artifactory repositories via web browsers is restricted due to company security controls.

Our company laptops have recently been migrated to a cloud‑native environment. Previously, we used specific URLs with dedicated credentials to download Instana and MQ‑related software. However, under the new setup, the credential pop‑up prompt is ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted Not under 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 ...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Provide the ability to have replicated datastores within Standard Edition

Provide the ability to have replicated datastores within Standard Edition. Today, when you deploy Instana, there is 1 copy of each datastore. This means that there is a single point of failure. If Elasticsearch gets corrupted, the entire environme...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under 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...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Adding script/ command to encrypt password for instana host agent configurations

Instana deployment: standard edition multi node adding a method to encrypt the password within the configuration file instead of using plain text password but using scripts/ commands not using hash vault or environment variable. Similar to the enc...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted Not under consideration

If an agent cannot connect to the backend, all data will be cached until agent can be reconnected

With our current ITM6 agent there is caching of both alerting and historical metric data meant for the WPA.. With Instana being a streaming only agent with all processing on the server side, in the event of an outage or agent communication issues ...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Add Instana to RedHat ODF sizer

Dear colleagues, please consider adding Instana to RedHat ODF sizer: https://sizer.ocs.ninja/ Thank you
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

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