Instana¶

This document describes the steps to follow to use Instana with Traefik Enterprise.

Enable Instana Tracing¶

If you want to use Instana as a tracing provider, you have to define the environment variables on your proxies to set the IP and port of the Instana agent.

Name	Description	Default	Required
INSTANA_AGENT_ENDPOINT	The IP of the agent	-	yes
INSTANA_AGENT_ENDPOINT_PORT	The port of the agent	42699	no

Kubernetes

#[...]
env:
  - name: INSTANA_AGENT_ENDPOINT
    valueFrom:
      fieldRef:
        fieldPath: status.hostIP

Docker

#[...]
environment:
  - INSTANA_AGENT_ENDPOINT=10.3.2.1

On-Premises

INSTANA_AGENT_ENDPOINT=10.3.2.1