Questions tagged [instana]

Instana is a commercial Application Performance Management solution to monitor cloud, container, and microservice applications. Instana was acquired by IBM in December, 2020.

Instana is a commercial Application Performance Management solution to monitor cloud, container, and microservice applications. It provides automatized visualization and performance analysis for the full stack of application services.

Documentation: https://www.instana.com/docs/
Support: https://support.instana.com/hc/en-us
Contact: https://www.instana.com/contact-us/

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How can we use INSTANA to monitor & manage Apache Kafka and Zookeeper cluster

I have set up a Kafka & Zookeeper cluster in Production. I need to set up INSTANA APM Tool to monitor and manage the Production Kafka & Zookeeper Cluster. Did anyone has ever used INSTANA to monitor Kafka . Kindly share your thoughts on this.
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Add Instana traceId to spring boot logging

I have an application landscape where we use Instana agents to monitor and trace the applications. To be able to correlate an application log to a trace I'd like to add the traceId from Instana into our logs. Now I've tried to add…
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failure to install instana agent with helm

kubectl get ns gives the following namespaces communication-prod Active 69d custom-metrics Active 164d default Active 218d kube-node-lease Active 218d kube-public Active 218d kube-system Active …
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Does anyone have a hypothesis at how Instana can avoid sampling and process 100% of traces

Most APM solutions which analyze and store traces will sample traces to manage the volume of traces stored/analyzed (millions per day!). Instana claims to store and analyze all traces without sampling. I have been doing some research around Instana,…
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Instana integration with create-react-app to download sourcemap for error reporting

The source map for CRA is enabled by default. I have given Instana the permission to download source map from my application in production, but the errors reported are still compressed and uglified. I guess the configuration has no effect. Referring…
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Integrating Instana error tracking into an Angular 2 application

I'm trying to integrate Instana into an application. More specifically I'm trying to send errors from my Angular app to Instana. I have my code 'working' so this is kind of a question about best practice. Instana's Backend Correlation documentation…
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Loading nested JSON from Instana Eum into JQUERY datatables

I have read plenty of resources and questions here regarding nested JSON but none are asking the exact same. I am trying to use IBM Instana to retrieve the page load metrics what I plan to load into a JQUERY DataTables table. The nested JSON I get…
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Opentelemetry collector vs Instana collector

We have a bunch of microservices where currently using instana collector for tracing. I am aware it is a broad question but even if I am personally supporter for opentelemetry I could not find any comparison between otel collector and rest of…
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Instana monitoring tool integration with react native webview

I am trying to integrate instana(https://www.instana.com) with react native webview. My app is a webapp which is being rendered inside webview. My approach is to inject their javascript agent(https://www.instana.com/docs/website_monitoring/api) to…
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Instana monitoring inside docker swarm cluster?

I'm trying to monitor a springboot microservice with instana on a docker swarm cluster. the Microservice has 2 replicas per node on a 3 nodes cluster. it is possible? do i need to run instana agent image with docker run? docker service? any help…
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How to set mode and time in Dynamic Agents?

I am referring to this page: https://www.instana.com/docs/setup_and_manage/host_agent/updates/#update-interval Is there a way to pass mode and time from outside as environment variables or any other way beside logging into the pod and manually…
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Instana REST API, 405 error - how to fix?

trying to get receive informations via the Instana REST API. Looks like that: https://[URL]/api/application-monitoring/metrics/applications?'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"timeFrame": {"windowSize": [SIZE], "to": [SIZE]}, "metrics":…
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Include nginx metrics from GitLab installation in Instana

I'm having some trouble monitoring my GitLab installation with Instana. GitLab and the nginx shipped with it are running fine, only monitoring does not work. Instana recognises the nginx but cannot get any information because it cannot pick up data…
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Instana Installation inquiry

I am trying to install Instana on docker, but when configuring the repository for RHEL there is a variable called DOWNLOAD_KEY= how can I get that variable "DOWNLOAD_KEY"? enter image description here export…
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How to collect metrics after installing Instana host agent on kubernetes?

I aim to collect data from a Kubernetes cluster for tracing purposes using the instana agent. I am open to any/all ways of collecting data (using instana) and using them via a python program. I have used the helm procedure described here to install…
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