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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-exporter-instana
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Instana exporter implementation for OpenTelemetry PHP.

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Since Jun 30Pushed 3w agoCompare

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Instana OpenTelemetry PHP Exporter
==================================

[](#instana-opentelemetry-php-exporter)

Instana exporter for OpenTelemetry.

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Installing via Composer
-----------------------

[](#installing-via-composer)

Install Composer in a common location or in your project

```
curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
```

Install via Composer

```
composer require open-telemetry/opentelemetry-exporter-instana
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Utilizing the OpenTelemetry PHP SDK, we can send spans natively to Instana, by providing an OpenTelemetry span processor our `SpanExporterInterface`.

This can be manually constructed, or created from the `SpanExporterFactory`. See the factory implementation for how to manually construct the `SpanExporter`. The factory reads from two environment variables which can be set according, else will fallback onto the following defaults

```
INSTANA_AGENT_HOST=127.0.0.1
INSTANA_AGENT_PORT=42699
```

The service name that is visible in the Instana UI can be configured with the following environment variables. OpenTelemetry provides `OTEL_SERVICE_NAME` (see documentation [here](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/sdk-configuration/general/#otel_service_name)) as a way to customize this within the SDK. We also provide `INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME` which will be taken as the highest precedence.

```
export INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME=custom-service-name
```

Example
-------

[](#example)

```
use OpenTelemetry\SDK\Trace\SpanProcessor\SimpleSpanProcessor;
use OpenTelemetry\SDK\Trace\TracerProvider;

$tracerProvider = new TracerProvider(
    new SimpleSpanProcessor(
        Registry::spanExporterFactory("instana")->create()
    )
);
$tracer = $tracerProvider->getTracer('io.instana.opentelemetry.php');

$span = $tracer->spanBuilder('root')->startSpan();
$span->setAttribute('remote_ip', '1.2.3.4')
    ->setAttribute('country', 'CAN');
$span->addEvent('generated_session', [
    'id' => md5((string) microtime(true)),
]);
$span->end();

$tracerProvider->shutdown();
```

Issues
------

[](#issues)

This exporter is primarily maintained by contributors from IBM. Issues should be reported as part of standard [Instana product support](https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/instana-support).

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance74

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity35

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity38

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

369d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4978962?v=4)[Brett McBride](/maintainers/brettmc)[@brettmc](https://github.com/brettmc)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4099109?v=4)[Bob Strecansky](/maintainers/bobstrecansky)[@bobstrecansky](https://github.com/bobstrecansky)

---

Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan, Psalm

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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