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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Python Tracing
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 22, 2022

Add "message" tag for monitoring kafka

I'm using instana for tracing requests and sometimes our http endpoints send kafka messages to topics.
I added instrumentation for kafka python library we are using so that in can be traced in instana.

Issue I'm facing is - I need to show message body which is sent to kafka topic.

As for now, instana UI only supports :
- kafka.service,
- kafka.access
- kafka.error tags

I'm asking to add kafka.message tag

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    Sep 16, 2022

    Thanks for reaching out.

    We do not and plan to not record payload like HTTP bodies, or the message body of any messaging system (in this case kafka.message).