Which HTTP header is automatically collected?

Instana traces and analyzes every request. Services and endpoints are automatically discovered, and relationships between services, endpoints, and your infrastructure are autocorrelated and stored in our Dynamic Graph.

Based on the data that is collected from tracers and sensors, KPIs are calculated for calls, latency, and erroneous calls. KPIs help you discover the health of every individual service and then the health of your entire infrastructure.

Services are a part of application monitoring and provide a logical view of your system. Services are derived from infrastructure entities such as hosts, containers, and processes. Incoming calls are correlated to infrastructure entities and enriched with infrastructure data; for example, the Kubernetes pod label or SpringBoot application name. After this infrastructure-linking processing step, a service mapping step maps the enriched calls to generate a service name per call based on a set of rules. Instana comes with an extensive set of predefined rules to generate the best possible service name for you automatically. To fine-tune the service mapping, you can create your own custom rules, see customize service mapping.