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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Tracing
Created by Guest
Created on May 26, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Provide Exclude option for Apache Tracing

We want to adopt Web EUM Auto Instrumentation through Apache tracing module.
We check the following url how to match the request.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=websites-automatic-instrumentation#match-expressions-examples

But this needs to list up all the url pattern and I understand it will match the requests from the top to the bottom.
We afraid that if we need to list up the all the path patterns, list will be large and the performance might be bad.

Please provide the operator options like "Exclude".

 websites:
      - name: 'website1'
        key: 'WEBSITEKEY1'
        selector:
          matchExpressions:
            - key: 'url/hostname'
              operator: 'Equals'
              values:
                - 'www.example.com'
            - key: 'url/path'
              operator: 'StartWith' <<< need an option here like operator: 'Exclude'
              values:
                - '/products'
                - '/carts'
Idea priority High

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