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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. ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

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 Future consideration

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

Documentation for the new Gateway API feature of Custom Edition on AKS, replacing NGINX.

The Kubernetes community has officially announced the retirement of the Ingress NGINX project, which directly impacts long-term platform stability and security. According to the Kubernetes announcement, Ingress NGINX will only receive best-effort ...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

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