@instana/collector
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Monitor your Node.js applications with Instana!
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This package is for monitoring Node.js server applications with Instana.
For monitoring JavaScript applications that:
Run in a browser, see Website Monitoring.
Run on Amazon Web Services (AWS), see AWS Lambda or AWS Fargate.
Run on Microsoft Azure, see Azure App Services.
Run on Google Cloud, see Google Cloud Run.
The installation of the Instana Node.js collector is a simple two step process. First, install the @instana/collector package in your application via:
npm install --save @instana/collector
Now that the collector is installed, it needs to be activated from within the application. Do this by requiring and initializing it as the first statement in your application. Please take care that this is the first statement as the collector will otherwise not be able to access certain information.
require('@instana/collector')();
// All other require statements must be done after the collector is initialized.
// Note the () after the require statement of the collector which initializes it.
// const express = require('express');
For more in-depth information, refer to the installation page.
The Node.js collector uses Native addons for some metrics. Check out the native addons documentation for details.
In most cases it is enough to require and initialize @instana/collector and let it do its work. However, there is an API / SDK for more advanced use cases.
If something is not working as expected or you have a question, instead of opening an issue in this repository, please open a ticket at https://www.ibm.com/mysupport instead. Please refrain from filing issues or tickets if your audit tool (npm audit, Snyk, etc.) reported a CVE for a dependency or a transitive dependency of @instana/collector -- we run these audits with every build and take appropriate action automatically.
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The npm package @instana/collector receives a total of 19,738 weekly downloads. As such, @instana/collector popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @instana/collector demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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