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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 13, 2021

Instana Agent should only bind to port 42699 on select private interfaces

We would like to stop the Docker agent from listening on port 42699.

  • Admin
    Henning Treu
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    Sep 29, 2022

    In addition, setting

    hhtp.listen to a specific ip address in the file etc/instana/com.instana.agent.main.config.Agent.cfg can limit the agent to listen on specific ip addresses.


    Best

    Henning

  • Admin
    Henning Treu
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    Sep 29, 2022

    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.

    Technical details: even when running in Docker, the Agent will listen for external (none-Docker) workloads to sent events, metrics & traces.


    Best regards
    Henning Treu - Product Manager Instana Agent & Application Perspectives