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

Manage Metrics & Data storage - ability to delete data based on time, limit the time frame data retention

We have standard edition in our environment and recently we have an issue where the data file system is reaching 98% which causes performance issue i.e. we're unable to view events in Instana GUI. We should have the ability to delete collected dat...
18 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...
19 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...
24 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Provide the ability to add additional nodes to a Standard Edition deployment to add more capacity and have more flexibility of where datastores are located

For some customers, a 3 node or 5 node standard edition deployment doesn't quite meet their needs from a scale/performance standpoint. If Standard Edition were a little bit more flexible, customers could address their performance bottlenecks. For ...
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 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Instana: Add a 'Maintenance-Aware' filter/toggle to the Events View to hide muted events"

Problem Statement Currently, when a Maintenance Window is active, Instana correctly suppresses notifications (Alerting Channels). However, the Events view continues to display all triggered events regardless of the maintenance status. During large...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Exporting and Importing instana Events

It would be useful if we could have an option to "quickly" export configured perspectives/websites/events etc that we have set from Instana, maybe into a YAML/JSON/XML format, and then it can be imported again into an Instana interface. I think th...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

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