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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Instana
Categories Agent Tracing
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 16, 2023

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Filter calls on the agent level based on IP addresses

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We are running Network Scans against our Linux Server on which our Applications are running. This results in a lot of Calls against our Applications which are traced in instana and looks like an attack. We would like to filter these calls on agent level so that they do no appear in instana (because it is not really an attack). These scans are executed from a specific IP Range but i did not find any setting for the agent to filter calls from an ip range. Is there any other way to filter calls based on ip addresses?

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Henning Treu
    Reply
    |     Mar 21, 2023

    Hi Christian & Marcus,

    there is a special HTTP header which can be set to suppress tracing of the specific request:

    Set HTTP Header X-INSTANA-L to 0 should suppress the tracing.

    This is also part of our documentation here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-traces#http-tracing-headers

  • Admin
    Henning Treu
    Reply
    |     Mar 21, 2023

    Hi Christian & Marcus,

    which technology gets traced when running the network scans? Does this originate from an HTTP call?

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