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Hello.

I have question how to/best practice to monitor Azure with multiple subscriptions.

Install the Instana host agent on a host inside or outside your Azure environment. Each host agent can monitor remote services within a single subscription. To monitor multiple Azure subscriptions, you must deploy multiple host agents.

Monitoring and instrumenting Microsoft® Azure with Instana agent

If we have instana host agent on single vm and configured to monitor one subscription is there any solution how to use this agent/vm for monitor multi subscriptions (we have 50+ subscriptions) or run multiple instana agents on one vm (docker?).

Regards, Peter

Hi Peter,

Unfortunately you can only have 1 Instana agent per host, regardless whether it's a host agent or a docker agent. The reason for this is that the Instana agent will publish itself using the hostname, so if you would have 1 host agent and 1 docker agent on the same system, both will attempt to publish themselves using the hostname, and this will cause conflicts in the Instana backend.

If you want to request a product enhancement for this, i suggest you raise it here:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/welcome-ibm-ideas-portal

Regards, Bart

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Bart Bogaerts
Client Engineering - Technology Engineer
IBM Belgium
Brussels
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Hi Peter, an IDEA is already there for this use case. https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-1529

Double check it and vote, please.

Nicola.