Lets look at the basic steps to set you up with Instana . 

There are a few key steps in Instana onboarding. The documentation here : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=getting-started has a great guide to get you started but to help with some simple individual tasks we have put together the following. All the tasks besides installing Instana are the same for both SaaS and On Premise customers

Install Instana

SaaS

For Saas Customer you will have been sent an email with your credentials. Just go  to https://instana.io and login with the credentials you were given to begin  your deployment

On Premise

For on premise you will need your permanent licence key. To get this contact your seller to complete the provisioning form

You will then need to download Instana from Passport Advantage  and save it to your computer.

Then follow the steps here to Install Instana on your Kubernettes or Open shift Environment: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=backend-installing-standard-edition.

The video below shows installing Instana on a Kubernettes cluster. 

Add a User

To perform the basic add a user task you can follow along with this video here but we do recommend that you read these docs on user access to keep control of your data

Monitor a Website

Website monitoring, often called End-User Monitoring (EUM), or Real-User Monitoring (RUM), is an important tool to understand digital user experience. Instana supports website monitoring by analyzing actual browser request times and route loading times. It allows detailed insights into the web browsing experience of users, and deep visibility into application call paths.

To set up this check out the video below and also these docs

Set up alerts

How you are notified of events taking place in Instana is critical. You can follow how to set up alerts with this video but for a more comprehensive deep dive into this topic we once again recommend  the Tech Intro Series.

Create an app perspective

An Application Perspective (AP) is a power tool for monitoring, alerting, and analysis of a microservice environment. Each AP auto-generates a feature-rich monitoring dashboard for the golden signals, as shown in the following figure. It organizes a team, so they stay focused on the services they are interested in and aren’t distracted. Alerts, errors, and logs are scoped to an AP to focus the troubleshooting. From a security perspective, an organization can use an AP to limit visibility to infrastructure and services.

To add one follow along with the video then take a deeper dive with the Tech Intro Series

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