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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...
8 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Support for Kafka heap configuration in Standard Edition

Dear Colleagues, during PoC with one of our customers we were trying to adjust kafka configuration to handle increased load, and it appeared to be that we need to grant more memory and heap to Kafka. As soon as it is Standard Self-Hosted Instana b...
30 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Need improved t-shirt sizes for Standard Edition

We need to improve our t-shirt sizing for Standard Edition. We need sizes that allow our sales teams and customers to choose the right architecture to meet their needs. There are a number of key requirements and reasons that we need this data. Our...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Need a manifest to mirror all standard edition packages and helm charts

We need the ability to generate a manifest for all packages that might be used for standard edition environments. Today, customers can run "stanctl versions list-images" which generates a manifost for the core containers. But, there are items that...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Requesting the ability to perform incremental backups to Instana backend self-hosted.

Adding an option for an incremental backup would help reduce product downtime needed for the full backup. This would benefit all Self-Hosted installations. Suggesting the ability to perform a full backup monthly and then incremental backups as nee...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted