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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 ...
3 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...
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

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

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...
11 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 ...
11 days 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...
11 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

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

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

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

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 Under review

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