Instana Exporter

Status
Stability	alpha
Supported pipeline types	traces
Distributions	contrib

The Instana Exporter converts OpenTelemetry trace data and then sends it to the Instana Backend.

Exporter Configuration

The following exporter configuration parameters are supported.

Parameter	Description
endpoint	The Instana backend endpoint that the Exporter connects to. It depends on your region and it starts with https://serverless-. It corresponds to the Instana environment variable INSTANA_ENDPOINT_URL
agent_key	Your Instana Agent key. The same agent key can be used for host agents and serverless monitoring. It corresponds to the Instana environment variable INSTANA_AGENT_KEY

These parameters match the Instana Serverless Monitoring environment variables and can be found here.

Sample Configuration

The code snippet below shows how your configuration file should look like:

[...]

exporters:
  instana:
    endpoint: ${INSTANA_ENDPOINT_URL}
    agent_key: ${INSTANA_AGENT_KEY}

[...]

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      exporters: [instana]

[...]

Full Example

receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:
      http:

processors:
  batch:
exporters:
  logging:
    loglevel: debug
  instana:
    loglevel: debug
    endpoint: ${INSTANA_ENDPOINT_URL}
    agent_key: ${INSTANA_AGENT_KEY}

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [instana]