Document updated on Jul 24, 2020
API Dashboard with Instana

Instana is a fully automated Application Performance Management (APM) solution designed specifically for the challenges of managing microservice and cloud-native applications.
With Instana you:
- Gain instant visibility with zero effort
- Quickly make sense of chaotic modern environments
- Identify and solve performance issues in seconds
Instana configuration
The Instana exporter allows you export data to Instana. Enabling it only requires you to add the instana namespace with a few seetings as follows:
{
"version": 3,
"extra_config": {
"telemetry/instana": {
"AgentHost": "localhost",
"AgentPort": 46999
}
}
}
Fields of Telemetry via Instana by IBM
* required fields
AgentHost
* string- By default Instana uses localhost.Defaults to
"localhost"
AgentPort
* integer- By default instana uses 46999.Defaults to
46999
EnableAutoProfile
boolean- Enables automatic continuous process profiling when true.
ForceTransmissionStartingAt
integer- The number of spans to collect before flushing the buffer to the agent.
IncludeProfilerFrames
boolean- Whether to include profiler calls into the profile or not.
LogLevel
- One of Error 0, Warn 1, Info 2 or Debug 3.Possible values are:
0
,1
,2
,3
MaxBufferedProfiles
integer- The maximum number of profiles to buffer.
MaxBufferedSpans
integer- The maximum number of spans to buffer.
Service
string- The global service name that will be used to identify the program in the Instana backend. The service name is set to the name of current executable by default.
Tracer
object- Tracer-specific configuration used by all tracers
CollectableHTTPHeaders
array- Case-insensitive list of HTTP headers to be collected from HTTP requests and sent to the agent.
DropAllLogs
boolean- Turns log events on all spans into no-ops.
MaxLogsPerSpan
integer- MaxLogsPerSpan limits the number of log records in a span (if set to a non-zero value). If a span has more logs than this value, logs are dropped as necessary.
Secrets
object- A secrets matcher used to filter out sensitive data from HTTP requests, database connection strings, etc. By default tracer does not filter any values. More info on secrets
