Instana incident

Service Disruption Impacting Debian Repositories

Resolved after 3 hours 21 minutes, on February 12, 2026.

resolved Feb 12, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

Resolved 02/12/2026 1:50 PM UTC Status: Resolved Customers who have already encountered the issue may still need to clean up their local apt metadata: 1.Clear local apt cachesudo apt clean sudo apt update 2. If problems persist, fully clear apt metadata sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* sudo apt update Published 02/12/2026 10:27 AM UTC Impact: The issue affects all environments using deb-based installations, including both self-hosted and SaaS customers. Existing installations using deb packages may fail to update. New installations using the official agent one‑liner script are not affected and continue to work as expected. Only debian repos appear to be impacted. Workaround: For now, reinstall or install the agent using the agent one‑liner, which works without issues. Status: Engineering is actively investigating. We will provide further updates as soon as more information is available.

Started
Feb 12, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 12, 2026, 01:48 PM UTC
Duration
3h 21m
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 12, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Feb 12, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

    Resolved 02/12/2026 1:50 PM UTC Status: Resolved Customers who have already encountered the issue may still need to clean up their local apt metadata: 1.Clear local apt cachesudo apt clean sudo apt update 2. If problems persist, fully clear apt metadata sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* sudo apt update Published 02/12/2026 10:27 AM UTC Impact: The issue affects all environments using deb-based installations, including both self-hosted and SaaS customers. Existing installations using deb packages may fail to update. New installations using the official agent one‑liner script are not affected and continue to work as expected. Only debian repos appear to be impacted. Workaround: For now, reinstall or install the agent using the agent one‑liner, which works without issues. Status: Engineering is actively investigating. We will provide further updates as soon as more information is available.

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