The Instana Exporter exports telemetry to Instana backend.

dotnet add package OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Instana

The trace exporter is supported.

To report to Instana backend correct agent key and backend URL must be configured. These values can be configured by environment variables INSTANA_AGENT_KEY and INSTANA_ENDPOINT_URL. Optionally backend communication timeout can be configured by environment variable INSTANA_TIMEOUT.

This snippet shows how to configure the Instana Exporter for Traces

using var tracerProvider = Sdk.CreateTracerProviderBuilder()
    .AddSource("DemoSource")
    .AddInstanaExporter()
    .Build();

The above code must be in application startup. In case of ASP.NET Core applications, this should be in ConfigureServices of Startup class. For ASP.NET applications, this should be in Global.aspx.cs.

Before digging into a problem, check if you hit a known issue by looking at the GitHub issues.