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Status Submitted
Workspace Instana
Categories Self Hosted
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 29, 2024

Need maturity in Custom Edition

We need to significantly improve the maturity of the Custom Edition offering.   This includes:

  • documented backup/restore procedures
  • Sizing tool for HA configurations
  • Tuning guidelines for the key components (datastores, filler, etc.).  Ideally, auto-scaling for cloud-native components
  • Out of the box thresholds indicating when to scale
  • Documentation for common kubernetes/storage environments such as AKS, EKS, VMware, OpenShift/ODF, etc.
  • Datastores should be installed and managed by a single operator.  By using Open Source operators, we risk configuration problems and we force customers to obtain support for open source components.
Idea priority High