diff --git a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Appsettings.cs b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Appsettings.cs
index bafe33ba..acbd4ef2 100644
--- a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Appsettings.cs
+++ b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Appsettings.cs
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ public class Appsettings
         public static string OtlpMetricsEndpoint => Global.Config["otlp:metrics:endpoint"];
 
         public static string OtlpMetricsProtocol => Global.Config["otlp:metrics:protocol"];
+        public static string OtlpInstanceId => Global.Config["otlp:instanceId"];
 
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Metrics/MeterService.cs b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Metrics/MeterService.cs
index d734660d..706b7133 100644
--- a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Metrics/MeterService.cs
+++ b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Metrics/MeterService.cs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ public MeterService(IServiceScopeFactory sf)
             {
                 return _serverNodeCount;
             }, "", "The number of nodes");
-            PullAppConfigCounter = AgileConfigMeter.CreateCounter<long>("PullAppConfigCounter", "The number of times the app configuration was pulled");
+            PullAppConfigCounter = AgileConfigMeter.CreateCounter<long>("PullAppConfigCounter", "", "The number of times the app configuration was pulled");
         }
 
         public void Start()
diff --git a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Program.cs b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Program.cs
index e19cb83b..0193cb1f 100644
--- a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Program.cs
+++ b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Program.cs
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ private static void AddOtlpLogging(ILoggingBuilder builder)
 
             builder.AddOpenTelemetry(options =>
             {
-                options.SetResourceBuilder(ResourceBuilder.CreateDefault().AddService(Program.AppName));
+                options.SetResourceBuilder(ResourceBuilder.CreateDefault().AddService(Program.AppName
+                    , null, null, string.IsNullOrEmpty(Appsettings.OtlpInstanceId), Appsettings.OtlpInstanceId)
+                    );
                 options
                        .AddOtlpExporter(expOp =>
                        {
diff --git a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Startup.cs b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Startup.cs
index 151b058a..3b2ed44a 100644
--- a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Startup.cs
+++ b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/Startup.cs
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
             services.AddSingleton<IMeterService, MeterService>();
 
             services.AddOpenTelemetry()
-                    .ConfigureResource(resource => resource.AddService(Program.AppName))
+                    .ConfigureResource(resource => resource.AddService(Program.AppName,
+                    null, null, string.IsNullOrEmpty(Appsettings.OtlpInstanceId), Appsettings.OtlpInstanceId))
                     .AddOtlpTraces()
                     .AddOtlpMetrics();
         }
diff --git a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/agile_config.db-journal b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/agile_config.db-journal
deleted file mode 100644
index 504ed9d0..00000000
Binary files a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/agile_config.db-journal and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/appsettings.Development.json b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/appsettings.Development.json
index ec215cae..4c5077e8 100644
--- a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/appsettings.Development.json
+++ b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/appsettings.Development.json
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     }
   },
   "otlp": {
+    "instanceId": "agileconfig server -1", // if empty, will generate a new one
     "logs": {
       "protocol": "http", // http grpc
       "endpoint": "http://192.168.0.201:5341/ingest/otlp/v1/logs"
diff --git a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/appsettings.json b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/appsettings.json
index 761cbbd1..ba6d242a 100644
--- a/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/appsettings.json
+++ b/src/AgileConfig.Server.Apisite/appsettings.json
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     }
   },
   "otlp": {
+    "instanceId":  "", // if empty, will generate a new one
     "logs": {
       "protocol": "http", // http grpc
       "endpoint": ""