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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Backend Enablement
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 8, 2025

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Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployments. We would like the ability to synchronise user configuration between 2x independent Instana Backend instances to support a proper self-hosted HA solution across 2x data centres, whereby we would have a primary instance where users would login/manage events, alerts, etc, and a 'DR' instance which would only be accessed if the primary instance is down. The ability to sync this configuration to the 'DR' instance is not currently available, and the only option for us would be to write custom scripts using the Instana REST APIs to extract this information, and then recreating at the 'DR' instance. Ideally this would be implemented via stanctl, or via some sort of import/export function in the UI that is backed by a simple REST API that we could use to automate the process.

Idea priority Urgent
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    Marcelo Ibanez
    Aug 13, 2025

    Hi Jeffrey,

    Thanks for the idea.

    We are aware that syncing the configuration between two Instana backends would be very useful for the scenarios you are describing.

    At present this capability is outside the scope of what we can deliver. We are actively exploring technical approaches that could make such synchronization possible in the future, but the work is still early and we do not have a solution to offer today. We plan to revisit this idea in Q1 2026 to assess whether we can address it then.



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  • Guest
    Aug 11, 2025

    We tried the Migration option. But it failed

    [root@host tmp]# stanctl migrate --air-gapped -f dump-20250731102105.tar.gz --install-type production --download-key *********** --cluster-data-dir /mnt/instana/var/data
    ⠹ Checking node: [0s] ✓
    ⠋ Extracting migration data [0s] ✓
    ⠋ Migrating config [0s] ✓
    ⠋ Adding Instana Helm repo [0s] ✓
    ⠧ Setting up the cluster [22s] ✓
    ⠦ Applying pre-requisites [1m2s] ✓
    ⠼ Starting cluster components [0s] ✓
    Error: no Postgres images found to import

    migrate also corrupted the backend as we were not able to stop or start cluster after the above error. So we had to uninstall and redeploy the backend to make it running again.

    Later it was confirmed by support (TS019947888) that migration from Standard Edition to another installed Standard Edition is not supported. We mist do a fresh installation on the destination side. This is not acceptable RTO for the customer as a fresh installation and bringing the DR side instance online has to be within couple of mins (<5min). And considering a scenario of a upgrade or patching requirement on the primary Instana server they need the secondary instance running. In this case both would be off line.

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