instana/robot-shop
Sample microservices application for playing with observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
69/100
- Activity 82
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3157
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 111
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1013 stars · 6544 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Stan's Robot Shop is a sample polyglot microservices application (NodeJS, Java, Python, Go, PHP) simulating an e-commerce shop, built to serve as a sandbox for learning container orchestration and monitoring. It comes pre-instrumented with Instana agents for end-to-end distributed tracing and metrics, and deploys via Docker Compose or Kubernetes.
Use cases
- learn microservices architecture with a realistic demo app
- test container orchestration and monitoring tools
- practice distributed tracing on a polyglot application
- sandbox for evaluating APM and observability platforms
- demo load testing against a microservices app
- try Kubernetes deployments with a multi-service workload
When to choose
- you need a realistic multi-language microservices demo to deploy in Docker or Kubernetes
- you want to learn or teach observability, tracing, and monitoring techniques
- you need a sandbox app to test service meshes, load generators, or APM agents
When to avoid
- you need a production-grade reference implementation with proper security and error handling
- you require ARM support or a fully open-source monitoring backend without an Instana account
- you want a minimal single-service example rather than a full multi-service stack
Facets
application · maturity active
microservices monitoring tracing developer-tools container-orchestration microservices monitoring developer-tools cross-platform sample-app demo-application distributed-tracing observability e-commerce-demo instana sandbox polyglot devops containers docker kubernetes linux
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/instana/robot-shop · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9bb67c73704b
- homepage: http://instana.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 783f6d44b9c9
- site_page: https://www.ibm.com/products/instana/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · 05e0108ff9d0
- site_page: https://www.ibm.com/products/instana/intelligent-incident-investigation · fetched 2026-08-29 · 796e4da9962b
- site_page: https://www.ibm.com/products/instana/automated-resource-optimization · fetched 2026-08-29 · 631e420302a0
- site_page: https://www.ibm.com/products/instana/opentelemetry · fetched 2026-08-29 · 70bbc345cb12
- site_page: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/jinsong-wang/2024/06/14/llm-observability-with-instana · fetched 2026-08-29 · 543f21af9c12
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| instana/robot-shop | main | 69 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="instana/robot-shop")
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