Podman sensor releases

Instana monitors Podman instances by using the Instana Podman sensor. The sensor provides insights into the health and performance of Podman instances.

For more information, see Monitoring Podman.

Release 1.0.9

Podman sensor 1.0.9 is released on 10 November 2025.

Features

The sensor now supports monitoring socket-less Podman containers (both rootfull and rootless) by using Podman commands to query snapshot data and cgroup parsers for metrics.

Release 1.0.8

Podman sensor 1.0.8 is released on 2 October 2025.

Improvements

The release improves the logging functionality for the Podman sensor and discovery.

Release 1.0.7

Podman sensor 1.0.7 is released on 17 July 2025.

Improvements

This release introduces a new snapshot attribute ImageName, which holds the human-readable container image name.

Release 1.0.6

Podman sensor 1.0.6 is released on 30 June 2025.

Fixes

The issue related to the extraction of the Podman container image name is now resolved.

Release 1.0.5

Podman sensor 1.0.5 is released on 30 June 2025.

Improvements

This release adds the Heartbeat feature to the Podman sensor to enhance its performance.