Native monitoring and Tracing for RUST

Collection of metrics, traces, and context-rich events from Rust-based services, bringing full-stack observability to one of the fastest-growing ecosystems in modern development. Rust is increasingly being adopted for building high-performance, reliable services in domains such as infrastructure, systems programming, financial services, and real-time data processing. However, Instana currently lacks official support for Rust-based workloads, leaving a blind spot in environments where Rust and other supported languages coexist. Without native observability, Rust applications become harder to monitor, debug, and integrate into the broader system health picture.

How should it work?

Allow for OOTB discovery of RUST based systems or develop an agent plugin for Rust that captures key application telemetry, integrates with distributed tracing. The integration should seamlessly work with Instana’s backend and visualization tools.

Monitoring RUST would help IBM customers:

• Close monitoring gaps in increasingly polyglot environments.
• Reduce MTTR for Rust services with integrated tracing and alerting
• Improve confidence in production Rust workloads through visibility and proactive alerting
• Align Rust applications with existing observability practices across the organization
• Reduce operational friction
• Reduce the need to use multiple APMs in the organisation.