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Integrating DBmarlin with Instana

By Vaishak A posted 4 days ago

  

Dbmarlin

DBmarlin is a database performance monitoring and analytics application that offers information about database workload, performance, and capacity. It supports a variety of database management systems, such as IBM Db2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

DBmarlin enables database administrators and developers to detect performance issues, optimise database settings, and increase overall database performance and efficiency. For more information, see Dbmarlin.

Downloading Dbmarlin

You can license DBmarlin by using a Freemium model, which offers free monitoring of the first database forever. To download DBmarlin, go to DBmarlin.
After you install DBmarlin, you can access the UI through any modern browser, such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari.
In your browser enter the address of the DBmarlin server into the address bar, for example, http://<IP address/hostname>:9090/.

Note: Instana offers a free premium license of DBmarlin to Instana customers. For more information, see DBmarlin.

Integrating with Instana

You can integrate Instana with DBmarlin to correlate database performance with infrastructure, applications, services, and users.

Enabling the integration

To enable integration with Instana, complete the following steps:

  1. Complete the following prerequisites:

    1. Obtain the Instana host address. You can get this address from the host part of the URL that you see in your Instana UI. For more information, see Getting your Instana Host.

    2. Obtain your Instana API key. To obtain the key, complete the following steps:

      1. Go to the Instana UI.

      2. From the navigation menu, click Settings > Team Settings > API Tokens.

      3. Copy the API key for DBmarlin.

  2. In the DBmarlin UI, click Settings > Integrations > Instana.

  3. In the Update Instana Integration window, enter values in the following fields to activate the integration:

    • Name: Any identification, such as Instana prod or Instana test.

    • Host Address: Your Instana host.

    • API Key: Your Instana API key.

  • The following image shows the DBmarlin UI where you must input values to enable the integration.

                  • Figure 1

For more information about DBMarlin integration with Instana, see Instana Integration.

After the integration is successful, you can see the link to Instana in your database list as shown in the following image:

DBmarlin Instana bi-direction integration

You can now link Instana to DBmarlin and DBmarlin to Instana. For more information, see Bi-directional Integration.

 

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