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Instana continues to expand our tracing capabilities. Of course, there is our own AutoTrace tracers, but Jaeger and Zipkin are the latest tracing systems from which we can incorporate traces into our

Instana is fully committed to Cloud and Container Native computing - officially becoming a named member of the OpenTracing Specification Committee, as well as a Silver member of the Cloud Native Comp

One of Instana’s core features is the ability to automatically trace and analyze every request in a complex system without any configuration or measurable impact.

One of the leading design goals for Instana is automatic detection and zero configuration. We do not want to require our users to configure what and how they monitor.

Monitoring systems can usually only work with data the system under management makes available. This is called “Observability”.

Tracing is a core element of every Application Performance Management tool. It is called “User-Defined Transaction Profiling” by Gartner and has two important values for the users of APM tools:

Former Gartner APM Analyst Jonah Kowall said on requirements for APM tools: “The Second is the New Minute”. I could not agree more! There are two dimensions where I propose this is correct: data g