Instana Tech Intro Series (previously known as Instana Essentials)

Topic

Overview of the topic

Date and time

Registration link

The Agent

During this session, you will learn:

Everything you need to know about the Instana Agent. 

How does it work, architecture, design, installation, and configuration options.

26^th June 10am ET

https://ibm.biz/instana_essentials_1

The Back-end

During this session, we will show you:

Instana deployment options

Saas & Self-Hosted: differences

How to install your Self-Hosted Instana backend and best practices.

 3^rd July 10am ET

https://ibm.biz/instana_essentials_2

Services and Endpoints

During this session, you will learn:

Our automatic discovery and how we trace and analyze every request.

What is a Service, what is an Endpoint, what we do OOTB, and what configuration possibilities are available for your specific environment.

10^th July 10am ET

https://ibm.biz/instana_essentials_3

Application Perspectives

During this session, you will learn:

All about Application Perspectives: background, how to setup, what's their unique value and why Application Perspectives is a key differentiator.

31^st July 10am ET

https://ibm.biz/instana_essentials_4

Context

During this session, you will learn:

How we provide end-to-end context of Application and Infrastructure dependencies.

Explore our Context Guide, Release Markers, and how to navigate Instana to get immediate access to all dependent components when you are trying to understand dependencies, and what is impacted or causing impact within your environment.

7^th August 10am ET

https://ibm.biz/instana_essentials_5

Alerting

During this session, you will learn about:

Our approach to Alerting: Options, Smart Alerts, best practices, alerting Channels.

How Instana can help you get a curated set of alerts that are relevant to your team.

14^th August 10am ET

https://ibm.biz/instana_essentials_6

Unbounded Analytics

During this session, you will learn:

Unbounded Analytics capabilities: how to slice and dice un-sampled data by drilling into the specific data combination you want to see and quickly identify an issue to fix it or share the relevant information with the teams that can fix it at the first sign of trouble.

Ask questions and get familiar with Instana features and capabilities to start your observability journey.

21^st August 10am ET

https://ibm.biz/instana_essentials_7

REST API

During this session, we will talk about 

Our API, how to get data out of Instana, such as traces and metrics, manage configuration.

Walk through some specific use cases and review some integrations that use our API to extend our OOTB capabilities.

28^th August 10am ET

https://ibm.biz/instana_essentials_8

Wlodek Dymaczewski: Wlodek is a Senior Sales Enablement and Skills Content Specialist on the IBM Automation team covering the AIOps portfolio. He has over 25 years of IT experience in systems and network management. For almost 15 years, he worked as a pre-sales engineer and cloud architect, focusing on hybrid cloud management and DevOps solutions. Since 2018, he has been working in the area of sales enablement, developing and delivering courses worldwide. Wlodek holds an MSc from Poznan University of Technology, Poland, and an MBA from Warwick Business School, UK. He lives in Poland,is a published author of several Redbooks and was a presenter at multiple conferences around the world.