Java Tracer

Instana monitors your Java environment by using the Java sensor, tracer, and profiler. The Instana Java sensor provides infrastructure metrics across your environment. Instana Java Tracer provides automated code instrumentation and end-to-end traces of requests, while the Java profiler analyzes code-level performance and discovers bottlenecks in production code. For more information, see Monitoring Java virtual machine and Java sensor releases.

To get specific tracer updates, you need to install the associated agent version specified in the release version.

1.2.498

Java Tracer 1.2.498 is released on 8 July 2025.

Improvements

This release updates support for the following libraries and framework:

  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon SNS
  • Apache Camel
  • AWS Java SDK For Amazon SQS
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub (Spring Cloud GCP)
  • GraphQL Java
  • IBM MQ
  • JMS (Apache ActiveMQ)
  • Mongodb 3
  • MongoDB (Spring Data MongoDB)
  • Postgresql
  • Redis (Spring Redis Reactor)
  • Redisson
  • Spring Batch and automation support
  • Spring Boot Starter Data JPA
  • Spring Boot Starter Webflux
  • Spring Mail

For more information, see Instrumented frameworks and libraries.

1.2.497

Java Tracer 1.2.497 is released on 23 June 2025.

Improvements

This release updates the support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon SNS
  • Apache Camel
  • Apache Tomcat updates
  • Apache RocketMQ
  • AWS Java SDK For Amazon SQS
  • Dropwizard
  • Elasticsearch Java API Client 8
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub (Client for Java)
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • GooglePubSub
  • gRPC
  • JMS (Solace)
  • Micronaut
  • MongoDB (Java Driver)
  • OkHttp
  • Redis (Lettuce)
  • Redis (Redisson)
  • Redis (Spring Session Data Redis)
  • Sofa RPC
  • Spring Cloud Gateway
  • Spring Context
  • Spring Kafka
  • Spring REST
  • Spring Web
  • Spring Webflux
  • Vaadin Flow

For more information, see Instrumented frameworks and libraries.

1.2.496

Java Tracer 1.2.496 is released on 16 June 2025.

Fixes

Previously, only identical spans can be grouped and sent as a single batch. In this release, the custom merge strategy for JDBC span batching is reverted. Now, spans do not need to be identical to be grouped into a batch.

1.2.495

Java Tracer 1.2.495 is released on 9 June 2025.

Improvements

This release updates the support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • Akka Actor
  • Akka Remote
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Apache CXF
  • Apache HttpClient Fluent Api
  • Couchbase
  • Google Cloud Bigtable (Hbase.1.x)
  • Google Cloud Bigtable (Hbase.2.x)
  • Google Cloud Pub/sub
  • IBM MQ
  • JDBC (Oracle)
  • Kafka Client
  • Micronaut
  • MongoDB (Java Driver)
  • MongoDB (Spring Data MongoDB)
  • Redis reactive
  • Redis (Spring Data Redis)
  • Spring Boot Starter Webflux
  • Spring Batch
  • Spring Boot Starter Data JPA
  • Spring Boot Starter Undertow
  • Spring Boot Starter Web
  • Spring Mail
  • Sqs

For more information, see Instrumented frameworks and libraries.

1.2.494

Java Tracer 1.2.494 is released on 27 May 2025.

Improvements

This release updates the support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • Akka Actor
  • Akka HTTP
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon SNS
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Apache Flink Kafka Connector
  • Camel
  • Eclipse Jetty Servlet
  • Elasticsearch
  • Feign
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Apache HttpClient 5 Fluent Api
  • JDBC (MySQL Connector/J)
  • Micronaut
  • Open redis.(jedis)
  • Reactor
  • Redis (Jedis)
  • Redis (Lettuce)
  • Redisson
  • Apache Sofa RPC
  • Spring Kafka
  • Spring Batch
  • Spring Boot Starter Batch
  • Spring Boot Starter Web
  • Spring Boot Starter Security
  • Spring Boot Starter Webflux
  • Spring Context
  • Spring REST
  • Spring Webflux
  • Spring Boot Starter Undertow
  • Spring Cloud Gateway
  • Spring Context
  • Spring Kafka
  • Spring Mail
  • Spring Rest
  • Spring Web
  • Spring.web (webmvc)
  • Vaadin
  • Vertx
  • Wicket

For more information, see Instrumented frameworks and libraries.

1.2.493

Java Tracer 1.2.493 is released on 12 May 2025.

Improvements

This release updates support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Couchbase
  • Redis (Vert.x)
  • Redis (Lettuce)
  • GraphQL Java
  • GRPC
  • MongoDB (Spring Data MongoDB)
  • Spring Redis Reactor
  • Spring Boot Starter Data JPA
  • RabbitMQ (Spring)

For more information, see Instrumented frameworks and libraries.

1.2.491

Java Tracer 1.2.491 is released on 8 April 2025.

Features

Java instrumentation now supports Java 24.

Improvements

This release updates support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • Aerospike JDK
  • Aerospike JDK 8
  • Akka Remote
  • Amazon SNS, SQS
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Apache Camel
  • Couchbase
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon S3
  • Eclipse Jetty Servlet
  • Google Cloud Bigtable (HBase 1.x)
  • Google Cloud Bigtable (HBase 2.x)
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub (Client for Java)
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub (Spring Cloud GCP)
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Grpc
  • IBM MQ
  • JBoss Data Grid (Infinispan Hot Rod client Legacy)
  • JDBC (Microsoft SQL Server)
  • JDBC (Oracle)
  • JMS (Apache ActiveMQ)
  • JMS (Apache ActiveMQ Artemis)
  • JMS (Solace)
  • Kafka Connect Runtime
  • Ldaptive (JNDI)
  • Mongodb 5.3.1 Async Support
  • Reactor
  • Redis (Lettuce)
  • Redis (Redisson)
  • RESTEasy
  • Spring Redis Data and Spring Redis Reactor
  • Spring Boot Starter Undertow
  • Spring Boot Starter Web
  • Spring Boot Starter Webflux
  • Spring Cloud Gateway
  • Spring Context
  • Spring Mail
  • Spring Scheduler and Spring Batch
  • Spring Web
  • Spring Web (webmvc)
  • Spring Webflux
  • Vaadin Flow

1.2.490

Java Tracer 1.2.490 is released on 24 March 2025.

Features

This release adds support for AWS Lambda RequestStreamHandler interface.

Improvements

This release updates support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • Akka.actor
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Cassandra
  • Eclipse.jetty.servlet
  • Camunda
  • Redis.(redisson)
  • Redis.(lettuce)
  • Apache Hbase
  • Spring.web
  • Spring.context
  • DynamoDB,Kinesis,SQS
  • Amazon.s3
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Spring.rest- Spring.webflux
  • Apache.cxf
  • Vaadin
  • Apache.sofa.rpc
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub (Spring Cloud GCP)
  • Slf4j
  • Elasticsearch
  • Rabbitmq.(spring)
  • Amazon SNS
  • Spring-Kafka

For more information, see Instrumented frameworks and libraries.

1.2.489

Java Tracer 1.2.489 is released on 10 March 2025.

Features

You can now customize the logging level by using Log4j.

Improvements

This release updates support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • RabbitMQ (Spring)
  • Spring Mail
  • Spring Web
  • Vaadin Flow
  • AWS Java SDK
  • Spring Webflux
  • Spring Context
  • Spring REST
  • Apache HttpClient
  • Redis (Spring Session Data Redis)
  • MongoDb
  • Redis (Spring Data Redis)
  • Redis (Spring Redis Reactor)
  • JDBC (Oracle)
  • Apache Tomcat updates
  • Spring Boot Starter Webflux
  • Spring Scheduler
  • Spring Batch
  • Apache Camel
  • Spring Kafka
  • Play Framework (Play AHC WS Standalone)
  • Redis (Vert.x)
  • RabbitMQ
  • Spring Cloud Gateway
  • Elasticsearch
  • Vaadin Flow

For more information, see Instrumented frameworks and libraries.

1.2.488

Java Tracer 1.2.488 is released on 24 February 2025.

Improvements

This release updates support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • google.cloud.pub/sub.(spring.cloud.gcp)
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Amazon SNS
  • Redis Lettuce
  • Aerospike
  • JDBC postgres
  • Vert.x-Core
  • Vert.x-Web
  • Elasticsearch
  • Reactor
  • Amazon S3
  • Apache Camel
  • Vaadin
  • Vaadin.flow
  • Redis.(vert.x)
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Spring WebFlux
  • Camunda
  • MongoDB
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Rabbitmq.(spring)
  • Vertx-core
  • Vertx-web

For more information, see Instrumented frameworks and libraries.

Fixes

This release fixes the memory leak in logger.