Upgrading your Self-Hosted Standard Edition

Upgrade the Standard Edition and stanctl tool.

To find the Instana versions that are compatible with Standard Edition, see Compatibility matrix.

Upgrading the stanctl tool

Complete the steps in the section that is applicable to your environment.

Online environment

If your Instana host has access to the internet, complete the steps in Installing stanctl command-line tool to upgrade stanctl.

Air-gapped environment

Complete the following steps on your bastion host:

  1. Upgrade stanctl by completing the steps in Installing stanctl command-line tool.

  2. Create the air-gapped installation package.

Then, to upgrade stanctl and to import the new air-gapped package on the Instana host that is in the air-gapped environment, complete the steps in Transferring the air-gapped installation package.

Upgrading Standard Edition

Make sure that the steps in Upgrading the stanctl tool are completed.

To upgrade Standard Edition, complete the following steps:

  1. Run the following command on the Instana host:

    stanctl up

    If an update is available, it’s shown in the command output. A sample output is shown in the following example:

    ? An update is available.
  [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
> Install Instana version: 3.281.433-0
  Proceed without installing the updates
> Cancel

  2. Select Proceed with installing the updates to upgrade the backend.

    You see the ⠇ Setting up the Kubernetes cluster [7s] message. After the cluster is set up, the upgrade is complete.