Instana Spring Boot Starter

Spring Boot Starter to monitor your applications with Instana.

What does it do?

NOTHING. It is just this README.

"Why? How?", I hear you say.

Because tracing your Spring Boot applications with Instana works out of the box. All automated, end-to-end.

The same end-to-end automation is there for all other non-Java applications, by the way. And Kotlin, Clojure and Scala.

Did I mention Python? We also have Josh Long covered for his wild nights of alcohol abuse and PHP. And, in his really darkest moments, .NET monitoring should scratch that itch.

Install the Instana host agent, and you are good to go.

Instana also traces .NET Core, Node.js, Ruby, Haskell, Crystal and on and on!

With Website Monitoring and Mobile App Monitoring, Instana monitoring actually starts with the user, every single interaction, page load and request, all the way to the deepest database calls.

Really? I have to do nothing but install the Instana agent?

If you insist, you could make sure you have the Spring Boot actuator in your app and turn on metrics via JMX for even better monitoring of Spring Boot 2.2.x and above via the following property:

spring.jmx.enabled=true

After that, you are all set and good to go. Really.

But does it work on...

Yup, it does.

You wanna deploy on Cloud Foundry or VMware Tanzu? We love them!

Up for some Kubernetes? Knock yourself out with the best-in-class, out-of-the-box, batteries-included-and-then-some Kubernetes monitoring by Instana.

Amazon Web Services? Sure thing. Microsoft Azure? Yes please! Google Cloud? Very nice! You go classy with some VMware vSphere? There you go.

No, this can't be true

Well, it actually is. And do not take my word for it: have a look at the Play with Instana sandbox.

Then, if you like what you see, you could try it out to monitor your applications, entirely for free, for two weeks, no strings attached.