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Workspace Instana
Categories Security and Compliance
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 17, 2025

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Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, either through configuration.yaml or standard environment variables (http_proxy, https_proxy, no_proxy).

This inconsistency causes issues in environments where outbound traffic must go through a corporate HTTP proxy. For example, in our case, we are attempting to monitor a Prometheus endpoint exposed by Confluent Cloud (Kafka), which requires proxy access. Due to the Prometheus sensor lacking proxy support, the agent consistently fails with connection timeouts, making this integration unusable in restricted environments.

Proposal:
Introduce consistent proxy support across all agent sensors by:

Allowing proxy configuration in the configuration.yaml for each sensor.

Supporting standard environment variables (http_proxy, https_proxy, no_proxy) as a fallback.

Benefits:

Ensures a uniform experience across all sensors.

Enables monitoring of cloud services in proxy-restricted or secured enterprise environments.

Reduces implementation barriers for customers in regulated industries.

Aligns with common enterprise networking policies without needing special exceptions.

Idea priority High

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