Infrastructure entities

Infrastructure entities in Instana represent the fundamental building blocks of your IT environment. They are the individual components that make up your applications and services. WIth Instana and OpenTelemetry, you can monitor the performance of your infrastructure entities, analyze the health of your applications, and identify potential issues.

Instana provides the backend for visualizing OpenTelemetry data that is collected from the entities. This process involves configuring OpenTelemetry receivers, processors, and exporters.

OpenTelemetry Data Collector Divers (ODCD) are designed to gather telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces from various sources and formats, making it easier to configure, monitor, and analyze your applications and infrastructure.

ODCD is a collection of stand-alone OpenTelemetry receivers for databases, systems, and apps. All implementations are based on OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions. A standard OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) exporter is provided to forward the data from this data collector to a Telemetry backend or an OpenTelemetry Collector.

For more information, see OpenTelemetry-based sensor SDK.