MQ Tracing with Instana

Image by Bertsz from Pixabay

In this paper, I will explore how we use Instana to trace a Java Spring Boot application, down to its JMS messaging, and further down to the underlying Queue manager (IBM MQ).

The environment is Kubernetes based. All the components including the application, MQ, Instana agent are running on the OpenShift container platform (OCP).

The Spring Boot Application