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Introduction

Instana provides AI Powered Application and Infrastructure Monitoring, allowing you to deliver Faster With Confidence, and automatic Analysis and Optimization.

OpenCensus Java has support for this exporter available through package io.opencensus.exporter.trace.instana

More information can be found at the Instana website

Creating the trace exporter

To create the trace exporter, you’ll need to:

Have Instana credentials
Use Maven setup your pom.xml file
Create the exporter in code

pom.xml

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <opencensus.version>0.15.0</opencensus.version> <!-- The OpenCensus version to use -->
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
            <artifactId>opencensus-api</artifactId>
            <version>${opencensus.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
            <artifactId>opencensus-impl</artifactId>
            <version>${opencensus.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
            <artifactId>opencensus-exporter-trace-instana</artifactId>
            <version>${opencensus.version}</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

Creating the exporter in code

package io.opencensus.tutorial.instana;

import io.opencensus.exporter.trace.instana.InstanaTraceExporter;

public class InstanaTutorial {
    public static void main(String ...args) {
        String agentEndpointURI = "http://localhost:42699/com.instana.plugin.generic.trace";
        InstanaTraceExporter.createAndRegister(agentEndpointURI);
    }
}

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Introduction

Creating the trace exporter

Creating the exporter in code