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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Tracing
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 6, 2024

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jul 22, 2024

    Hi Reni, certainly! Would be a pleasure. Could you send an invite?

  • Admin
    Mary Reni Rajaian
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    Jul 15, 2024

    Hello Alexander/Christian,
    I am looking into gathering more information on this area, for a customization feature I am building.
    Would you be interested to have a short chat on that?

    Thanks,

    Mary Reni Rajaian

    Product Manager, Tracers&Profilers

    IBM Instana

  • Admin
    Mary Reni Rajaian
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    Jun 12, 2024

    Hello Alexander

    Thank you for the request. Currently we have the functionality of suppressing span creation through Headers. If X-INSTANA-L header is present in the a request header(http/messaging), we will suppress span creation for that call and further processing in that application. When the call goes to the downstream application, header need to be sent again for suppressing in the second server

    Link: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-traces#http-tracing-headers


    More improvements are in plan in this area. I estimate this might take another year, I will keep you updated


    Thanks,

    Mary Reni Rajaian

    Product Manager, Tracers and Profilers

    IBM Instana

  • Guest
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    Apr 26, 2024

    Currently the Instana agent samples 100% of requests it can see. In a production environment, particularly during holiday, this can put undue strain on the infrastructure of our systems. In order to still have visibility, we would like to turn down the sampling rate. Right now we are forced to turn off certain tracing for services, ie Kafka Streams, in order to mitigate this issue.