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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories PHP Tracing
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 26, 2025

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Support for FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP, a PHP server built on top of Caddy, was recently adopted by the PHP Foundation (see https://les-tilleuls.coop/en/blog/frankenphp-is-now-officially-supported-by-the-php-foundation and  https://github.com/php/frankenphp), and it can be used as a replacement for the widely used Nginx+PHP-FPM combo. It provides performance benefits, modern features, extensibility and much more. For many PHP-based applications it can serve as a drop-in replacement for other servers. 

Ideally, this would work as the php-fpm integration. In theory, automatic PHP (8.2 and above with ZTS) tracing should work out-of-the-box, FrankenPHP ships with the interpreter built in, loads regular .ini files, etc., but I didn't try it out. Support for both the classic, and the worker mode would be ideal. The latter keeps the application in-memory (similarly to Node.JS).

Also, FrankenPHP support compiling the application into a truly static or almost-static binary, which makes it possible to deploy in a scratch docker image. Supporting the latter in Instana should be possible, at a glance the only challenge is detecting, that the container runs such a binary, so the same .so can be placed and activated, as for regular PHP support.

Note, since FrankenPHP is built on top of Caddy, it might be a good idea to support that as well, similarly to nginx, apache or haproxy.

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Aysha Kanakkovil
    Nov 12, 2025

    Hi Mate,

    Given our current commitments to customers, prospects, and ongoing escalations, our roadmap is fully booked for the next ~3 quarters. As a result, we will not be able to prioritize this feature at this time. We are moving this request to "Not Under Consideration."

    Thank you for your understanding.

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