instana VS tracetest

We focused on the observability ecosystem and took the time to interact with our friends from Lightstep, New Relic, Honeycomb, Dynatrace, Instana, and many more. With that in mind, keep an eye out for more integrations coming to Tracetest!

In the last 5 to 10 years, new Observability vendors have entered the market, including Honeycomb, Instana, Lightstep and Datadog. Similarly, traditional APM vendors such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic, as well as SIEM (and log management) vendors such as Splunk and Sumo Logic, have joined them in the Observability space too. Finally you also have major cloud providers such as AWS with their own observability solution. Each of them is attempting to address the observability issues that modern architecture presents by using Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Events.

You're missing Instana. 😉

Instana works quite well.

As an engineer, or someone responsible for monitoring a service, the best way to easily find and fix issues is through the use of observability and serverless monitoring tools rather than focusing on logs. Although AWS provide a service called AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing, there are better tools in the partner ecosystems such as those provided by Lumigo, Thundra, Instana and several others. For example, Lumigo provides some key benefits over X-Ray such as (thanks to Yan Cui for highlighting some of these):

Known tools: NewRelic Alternatives: Datadog, AppSignal, Instana, ElasticAPM

Code Example

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git clone https://github.com/kubeshop/tracetest cd tracetest/examples/setup-of-tracetest-tests

The code to execute this scenario is contained in the delete_test.ts file from a repo which we will clone and run locally further in this article. First, let’s discuss the code for the key sections that are utilizing the [@tracetest/client](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tracetest/client) NPM package.

If you want to see the code example right away, check it out on GitHub, here.

If you’re eager to start, clone the example from GitHub and get a Tracetest Agent public URL and Token after signing up at app.tracetest.io. Sign up for a Cloudflare account on

For this example, I’ll showcase this simple example app for Tracetest and Sumo Logic. To quickly access the example, you can run the following:

If you get stuck along the tutorial, feel free to check out the example app in the GitHub repo, here.

It’s official! You can now use synthetic monitoring to run trace-based tests with Tracetest’s new GitHub Action. I’ve already implemented dogfooding and it’s currently running in production as health checks, running hourly, here.