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Kanela Agent doesn't support Kamon 2.8.0 #1413

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@ludwiggj

With kamon (2.8.0) and the kanela agent (2.0.0), our server throws multiple
exceptions on startup. Single example:

[WARNING] 2025-12-11 14:04:04 [kanela][main] Module [Annotation
Instrumentation] doesn't have any prefixes in the 'within' setting. The
instrumentations from this module will not have any effect.

[ERROR] 2025-12-11 14:04:04 [kanela][main] Failed to instantiate
kamon.instrumentation.akka.http.AkkaHttpServerInstrumentation:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectConstructorHandleAccessor
	.newInstance(DirectConstructorHandleAccessor.java:74)

	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller
	(Constructor.java:502)

	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance
	(Constructor.java:486)

	at kanela.agent.Kanela.lambda$loadConfiguredModules$0
	(Kanela.java:222)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$7$1.accept
	(ReferencePipeline.java:273)

	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator
	.forEachRemaining(ArrayList.java:1708)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto
	(AbstractPipeline.java:509)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto
	(AbstractPipeline.java:499)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp
	.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:921)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate
	(AbstractPipeline.java:234)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.collect
	(ReferencePipeline.java:682)

	at kanela.agent.Kanela.lambda$loadConfiguredModules$1
	(Kanela.java:232)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept
	(ReferencePipeline.java:197)

	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1596)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.SortedOps$RefSortingSink.end
	(SortedOps.java:395)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.Sink$ChainedReference.end
	(Sink.java:261)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto
	(AbstractPipeline.java:510)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto
	(AbstractPipeline.java:499)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp
	.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:921)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate
	(AbstractPipeline.java:234)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.collect
	(ReferencePipeline.java:682)

	at kanela.agent.Kanela.loadConfiguredModules(Kanela.java:234)

	at kanela.agent.Kanela.start(Kanela.java:109)

	at kanela.agent.Kanela.premain(Kanela.java:71)

	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor
	.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:103)

	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:580)

	at java.instrument/sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl
	.loadClassAndStartAgent(InstrumentationImpl.java:560)

	at java.instrument/sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl
	.loadClassAndCallPremain(InstrumentationImpl.java:572)

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
'kanela.agent.api.instrumentation.InstrumentationBuilder$Target
kamon.instrumentation.akka.http.AkkaHttpServerInstrumentation.onType
(java.lang.String)'

	at kamon.instrumentation.akka.http.AkkaHttpServerInstrumentation
	.<init>(AkkaHttpServerInstrumentation.scala:39)

	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectConstructorHandleAccessor
	.newInstance(DirectConstructorHandleAccessor.java:62)

	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller
	(Constructor.java:502)

	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance
	(Constructor.java:486)

	at kanela.agent.Kanela.lambda$loadConfiguredModules$0
	(Kanela.java:222)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$7$1.accept
	(ReferencePipeline.java:273)

	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator
	.forEachRemaining(ArrayList.java:1708)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto
	(AbstractPipeline.java:509)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto
	(AbstractPipeline.java:499)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp
	.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:921)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate
	(AbstractPipeline.java:234)

	at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.collect
	(ReferencePipeline.java:682)

	...

Our server threw over 60 of these, a couple of more examples of no such
method issues reported:

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
'kanela.agent.api.instrumentation.InstrumentationBuilder$Target
kamon.instrumentation.akka.http.AkkaHttpClientInstrumentation.onType
(java.lang.String)'

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
'kanela.agent.api.instrumentation.InstrumentationBuilder$Target
kamon.instrumentation.akka.instrumentations.EnvelopeInstrumentation
.onType(java.lang.String)'

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