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Workspace Instana
Categories Kubernetes
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 29, 2025

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Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Sep 2, 2025

    Hi @Jayanth! Nice to meet you too.

    This request is because TNC compliance architecture (common in telco industry), where no agents should be deployed inside OCP). And of course, OTEL cannot be deployed too because of the same reason.

    So it's not about permissions or performance issues, but compliance.

    Kind regards,

    Enrique

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  • Admin
    Jayanth Putta
    Aug 8, 2025

    Hi @Guest ! Nice to meet you. I'm Jayanth, the PM for Kubernetes observability at Instana.

    Could you elaborate on the ask? What I'd like to know is, why would the customer like an agentless mode of monitoring?

    Is it due to permissions they have on the cluster? Have they considered using the OpenTelemetry Collector perhaps?

    Do they have performance issues with the current K8s agent?

    Any context you can provide on the underlying use case would be helpful!

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