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How to create an OTel span within an Instana trace context?

  • 1.  How to create an OTel span within an Instana trace context?

    Posted yesterday

    Hi,

    In my current project we need to enrich standard traces created by the Instana agent default java tracing with information from payloads in the business objects to create usable endpoints. 

    Ideally we can just add the information in an additional span which we, ideally again, create using the OTel API (or SDK). I know we could do this with the Instana Java Tracing SDK, but we like to make this future proof with OTel, but at the same time avoid (for now) a complete change to the OTel agent.

    We want to enrich the traces which are created automatically with additional information in spans.

    According to the docs the Instana tracing is using the W3C trace context and my idea is to use this, but I have not found a working setup yet. Everything I tried had an empty context when I accessed it and I wonder what I need to set.

    Any ideas out there how to achieve that?

    Many thanks and regards,

    Rainer


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    Rainer Schuppe Rainer Schuppe
    Instana veteran (since 2016), APM oldtimer (since 2003 Wily, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Instana, OpenTelemetry)
    https://observability-heroes.com
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