Instana

Summary

A free-of-charge technical enablement series to help you get started with Instana.

Join us for an 8-week enablement series to help you understand the fundamentals of Instana.

We will deliver one 1-hour session each week dedicated to a key learning area of the product. The sessions are designed so you can drop in at any point into the curriculum. You can ask questions and get familiar with Instana features and capabilities to start your observability journey.

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.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Please share any questions by clicking on the Reply button. If you have not done so already, register to watch here.

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Viktor Manweiler
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Hi everyone,

You can watch the on-demand recording here. Please share any of your questions below.

Summary

A free-of-charge technical enablement series to help you get started with Instana.

Join us for an 8-week enablement series to help you understand the fundamentals of Instana.

We will deliver one 1-hour session each week dedicated to a key learning area of the product. The sessions are designed so you can drop in at any point into the curriculum. You can ask questions and get familiar with Instana features and capabilities to start your observability journey.

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.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Please share any questions by clicking on the Reply button. If you have not done so already, register to watch here.

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Viktor Manweiler
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Hi everyone:

Is there any information about the resource consumption of each sensor?

Regards,

Christian

Hi everyone,

You can watch the on-demand recording here. Please share any of your questions below.

Summary

A free-of-charge technical enablement series to help you get started with Instana.

Join us for an 8-week enablement series to help you understand the fundamentals of Instana.

We will deliver one 1-hour session each week dedicated to a key learning area of the product. The sessions are designed so you can drop in at any point into the curriculum. You can ask questions and get familiar with Instana features and capabilities to start your observability journey.

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.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Please share any questions by clicking on the Reply button. If you have not done so already, register to watch here.

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Viktor Manweiler
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Christian,

My understanding is that sensor resource consumption does vary based on the workload, so its not a "one size fits all" kind of answer.  However with that said, Instana has done a lot of work to both made the resource consumptions of the sensors running under the Agent very low by design and to make the resource consumption visible to the users.  You can check out the documentation to see how to manage the host resources.  https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-managing-host. 

Hi everyone:

Is there any information about the resource consumption of each sensor?

Regards,

Christian

Hi everyone,

You can watch the on-demand recording here. Please share any of your questions below.

Summary

A free-of-charge technical enablement series to help you get started with Instana.

Join us for an 8-week enablement series to help you understand the fundamentals of Instana.

We will deliver one 1-hour session each week dedicated to a key learning area of the product. The sessions are designed so you can drop in at any point into the curriculum. You can ask questions and get familiar with Instana features and capabilities to start your observability journey.

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.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Please share any questions by clicking on the Reply button. If you have not done so already, register to watch here.

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Viktor Manweiler
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Christian,

My understanding is that sensor resource consumption does vary based on the workload, so its not a "one size fits all" kind of answer.  However with that said, Instana has done a lot of work to both made the resource consumptions of the sensors running under the Agent very low by design and to make the resource consumption visible to the users.  You can check out the documentation to see how to manage the host resources.  https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-managing-host. 

Hi everyone:

Is there any information about the resource consumption of each sensor?

Regards,

Christian

Hi everyone,

You can watch the on-demand recording here. Please share any of your questions below.

Summary

A free-of-charge technical enablement series to help you get started with Instana.

Join us for an 8-week enablement series to help you understand the fundamentals of Instana.

We will deliver one 1-hour session each week dedicated to a key learning area of the product. The sessions are designed so you can drop in at any point into the curriculum. You can ask questions and get familiar with Instana features and capabilities to start your observability journey.

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.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Please share any questions by clicking on the Reply button. If you have not done so already, register to watch here.

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Viktor Manweiler
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Hi Christian

you choose the right and only approach: measuring in the right context aka your environment.

In general, we must differentiate between trace sensors and metric sensors. Trace sensor add overhead with growing load (each span must be processed) while metric sensors have always the same overhead, no matter the load (it does not matter if the value of a metric is 0 or a gazzilion...the numbers of metrics collected is constant).

Also, when we talk about overhead, there are 4 different overheads: cpu, mem, io (network) and storage (likely of little concern). Which one is our concern?

Lastly, your observation with remote agents is interesting. Per design of Instana the typical setup is one agent on one host. But this changes with remote agents and theoretically you could monitor 1million entities with one agent, and obviously that does not work. Hence, my appreciation of you measuring the actual overhead.

I hope that helps

Tom

Christian,

My understanding is that sensor resource consumption does vary based on the workload, so its not a "one size fits all" kind of answer.  However with that said, Instana has done a lot of work to both made the resource consumptions of the sensors running under the Agent very low by design and to make the resource consumption visible to the users.  You can check out the documentation to see how to manage the host resources.  https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-managing-host. 

Hi everyone:

Is there any information about the resource consumption of each sensor?

Regards,

Christian

Hi everyone,

You can watch the on-demand recording here. Please share any of your questions below.

Summary

A free-of-charge technical enablement series to help you get started with Instana.

Join us for an 8-week enablement series to help you understand the fundamentals of Instana.

We will deliver one 1-hour session each week dedicated to a key learning area of the product. The sessions are designed so you can drop in at any point into the curriculum. You can ask questions and get familiar with Instana features and capabilities to start your observability journey.

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.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Please share any questions by clicking on the Reply button. If you have not done so already, register to watch here.

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Viktor Manweiler
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Christian,

My understanding is that sensor resource consumption does vary based on the workload, so its not a "one size fits all" kind of answer.  However with that said, Instana has done a lot of work to both made the resource consumptions of the sensors running under the Agent very low by design and to make the resource consumption visible to the users.  You can check out the documentation to see how to manage the host resources.  https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-managing-host. 

Hi everyone:

Is there any information about the resource consumption of each sensor?

Regards,

Christian

Hi everyone,

You can watch the on-demand recording here. Please share any of your questions below.

Summary

A free-of-charge technical enablement series to help you get started with Instana.

Join us for an 8-week enablement series to help you understand the fundamentals of Instana.

We will deliver one 1-hour session each week dedicated to a key learning area of the product. The sessions are designed so you can drop in at any point into the curriculum. You can ask questions and get familiar with Instana features and capabilities to start your observability journey.

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.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Please share any questions by clicking on the Reply button. If you have not done so already, register to watch here.

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Viktor Manweiler
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Hi Christian ,

We discovered high CPU overhead when trying to monitor heavy working IBM MQ Server on AIX hosts.  Actually we planning to work with MQ tracing, but we cannot continue.

Case open.

In addition, with tracing IBM HTTP server on AIX host we have problems.

I have number of reasons to say, that AIX is "unloved" by Instana.

Christian,

My understanding is that sensor resource consumption does vary based on the workload, so its not a "one size fits all" kind of answer.  However with that said, Instana has done a lot of work to both made the resource consumptions of the sensors running under the Agent very low by design and to make the resource consumption visible to the users.  You can check out the documentation to see how to manage the host resources.  https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-managing-host. 

Hi everyone:

Is there any information about the resource consumption of each sensor?

Regards,

Christian

Hi everyone,

You can watch the on-demand recording here. Please share any of your questions below.

Summary

A free-of-charge technical enablement series to help you get started with Instana.

Join us for an 8-week enablement series to help you understand the fundamentals of Instana.

We will deliver one 1-hour session each week dedicated to a key learning area of the product. The sessions are designed so you can drop in at any point into the curriculum. You can ask questions and get familiar with Instana features and capabilities to start your observability journey.

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.

Please join us in this on-demand recording. Please share any questions by clicking on the Reply button. If you have not done so already, register to watch here.

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Viktor Manweiler
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