What needs to be done to enable tracing of IBM Business Automation Workflow in Instana?

Business-Automation-Workflow (BAW) tracing is already shipped with the Instana agent; it is simply disabled by default. To start capturing BAW traces, you open the Instana Web UI, navigate to

Settings ➔ Configuration ➔ Automatic Unbounded Service Tracing ➔ Technologies (or Tracing ➔ Technologies in older releases) and switch on “IBM Business Automation Workflow.”

No file edits, extra binaries or dashboards are required—the sensor is activated from the UI and Instana immediately begins collecting and presenting BAW spans.

A. configuration.yaml changes are unnecessary; the built-in BAW sensor is enabled only through the UI toggle.

B. The Instana agent already contains the BAW sensor; no additional software has to be installed.

D. When tracing is enabled, Instana automatically creates BAW service, call, and dashboard views; manual dashboard creation is optional, not required.

1. Instana Documentation – “IBM Business Automation Workflow sensor,” Section “Activation,” docs.instana.io/sensors/trace/ibm-business-automation-workflow/ (states: “Enable the sensor in the Instana UI under Settings ➔ Configuration ➔ Technologies.”).

2. IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation Knowledge Center 23.0 – “Observability with Instana,” subsection “Enable tracing for IBM Business Automation Workflow” (explains enabling via Instana UI toggle; no agent file changes).

3. J. Knab et al., “End-to-End Observability for IBM Business Automation Workflow Using Instana,” IBM Developer Article, 2023-06-15, para 4 (“Open the Instana Web console and turn on the BAW technology switch to start tracing.”).