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Instana Self-Hosted make ports 8080 and 8081 configureable

Customer cannot use Instana onPrem environment as onPrem Instana requires 8080 and 8081 ports and doesn't allow to change the ports during installation. There is a software installed on all servers in customer environment as per policy of the cust...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Delivered

Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x

According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

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about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Support for Instana Backend on OpenShift

Openshift support is on our roadmap and definitely something we want to support at Instana. Beta is planned for Q2 and GA for Q3.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 7 Delivered

Re-Login URL Problem in IDP Enabled Backend

Hi, When a user logout from the IDP-enabled K8/OCP-based installation, it forwards the user to the base URL to which a user can't log in. So they need to change URL to tenant again. That behaviour creates confusion on the user side. Thank you.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Enable HSTS by default on all user facing endpoints

Currently, customer can enable HSTS for EUM and all nginx components (so everything except agent traffic) by eum { hsts_enabled=true} on docker-based installations (opt-in). That EUM settings affect also HSTS on the Instana backend i.e., for at ap...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

CentOS8 support

Currently CentOS8 is not listed as a supported OS for on-prem on Instana official documentation.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Provide Infra metrics for custom dashboard in Self-managed Dashboard

In the custom dashboard, Infra and Platform metrics is in "coming soon" status long time. My financial client can't adopt SaaS Instana because it is overseas region. Could you provide infra and platform capability also for the self-managed enviro...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are trying to set up a PoC for Instana. The customer has Oracle Linux which they say is basically RedHat Enterprise Linux. Do we have the capability to set up an on prem backend with Oracle Linux?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Delivered

change the value of Nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" to larger than 128

the value of nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" is fixed with 128, which will cause the gateway pod failed to start when the length of baseDomain is larger than 128 with following error. # kubectl logs gateway-67965f476b-l8f45 -n ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered