Monitoring Crystal

The Crystal sensor is automatically deployed and installed after you install the Instana agent.

Supported Versions
Sensor (Data Collection)
- Tracked Configuration
- Metrics
Tracing

Supported Versions

Currently supported versions are Crystal 0.22+

Sensor (Data Collection)

Tracked Configuration

Version
Runtime Arguments

Metrics

Heap
Boehm GC

Tracing

OpenTracing

The Instana Crystal shard supports OpenTracing. See here for an example.

Mode

Automatic tracing of all requests
Cross host and cross language tracing

Installation

The Instana Crystal shard is listed on Crystal Shards and available via Github.

To install, add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  instana:
    github: instana/crystal-sensor

Then, run shards install.

See the open source repository on Github for optional configuration options: https://github.com/instana/crystal-sensor