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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Agent
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 22, 2023

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Add Agent Zone and tagging option for ALL agent installations from the backend user interface (UI).

Most agent installation types do NOT allow adding a custom zone or custom tagging when installing the agent from the UI.  Azure appears to be the only one that does.  

The zone and tags are simple configurations that have to be manually added to the configuration.yaml file after the agent is installed.  Why can't this be injected into the configuration file automatically from the UI BEFORE the agent is installed?  

I'm aware that some agent installations allow for the zone to be configured when the install runs, but if agents are deployed en masse using scripting, this is often left out and the Zones are labeled as unidentified. 

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Idea priority Medium
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    Henning Treu
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    |     Mar 8, 2024

    Dear Customer,


    We thank you so much for submitting an idea and, in doing this, we appreciate your support in improving Instana product.

    Unfortunately this requirement is not currently in our roadmap and will not be for the next 12/18 months.

    If this feature is still a priority for your Instana implementation at that time, please reopen it to bring up to our attention and we will reevaluate for its inclusion.


    The Agent zone can be set for an Agent utilising the INSTANA_ZONE environment variable.


    Thank you & best regards

    Henning Treu - Instana Product Manager

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