Instana setup

Instana supports ingesting OpenTelemetry data through both its agent and agentless (direct backend) methods. For more information, see Sending OpenTelemetry data to Instana.

The Instana agent automatically collects and correlates OTel data from instrumented applications, enriching it with infrastructure context. For more information, see Instana agent setup.

Agentless ingestion allows direct transmission of OTel data through the Instana OTel backend endpoint. To find the domain names of the Instana backend otlp-acceptor for different Instana SaaS environments, see Endpoints of the Instana backend otlp-acceptor.