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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Agent
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 17, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Support for running Instana Agent with security restriction on kubernets for MQ only

We are looking for a solution to collect all the logs and metrics from MQ deployed on kubernetes pods. We are interested only in MQ, no other IBM products.

Our restrictions regarding deployment are:

  • Pods can't have these settings: hostNetwork: true, hostPID: true, privileged: true, hostPath mounts.

  • Pods have this security context:
    allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
    readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
    runAsUser: 1001
    runAsNonRoot: true
    privileged: false
    capabilities:
    drop:
    - ALL

  • RBAC: Rules with secrets are not permitted for ClusterRole

  • Strong preference (and possibly a requirement) for changing ClusterRole to Role as there are greater restrictions for ClusterRole which may not be allowed.

  • Images with critical and high vulnerabilities found while scanning a new image not permitted

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Henning Treu
    Aug 18, 2026

    Hi Szymon,

    thanks for providing this idea. We can adjust Instana agents privileges with our upcoming Agent 2 release.

    For this, we will review and adjust the following from the requirements list:

    • privileged: true will be addressed by our non-root agent deployment

      • the capabilities: drop: ALL setting can not be used for the agent pod. Agent will have a list of dedicated Linux kernel capabilities to perform the monitoring

      • hostNetwork and hostPID is an essential requirement for Instana agent to perform monitoring

    • host path mounts will be revisited and restricted / removed as much as possible

      • exceptions will be documented

    • ClusterRole / Role rules with secrets will be restricted to instana-agent namespace

    • ClusterRoles in general will be restricted to namespace Roles as much as possible

      • exceptions will be documented


    Please be aware that we can role out any of those modifications only with Agent 2 release. Agent 1 is not fully compatible and requires the current settings.


    Best regards

    Henning Treu - Product Manager Instana Agent

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