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Need to setup Instana to our WorkLoad Cluster that has been deployed using ROKS VPC Gen2 In IBM Cloud

  • 1.  Need to setup Instana to our WorkLoad Cluster that has been deployed using ROKS VPC Gen2 In IBM Cloud

    Posted Fri June 28, 2024 09:12 AM

    Hello All,

    I need to setup APM to one of our workload clusters which had been deployed using ROKS VPC Gen2 in IBM Cloud. The client requirement is they had used Datadog as their observability, but they need to have one APM tool within IBM cloud so in search we found tool called Instana. Could you please guide us how to setup. Infact, we had suggested them IBM cloud Monitoring, but they want to even more analysis inside the pod hence they require metrics to get the information of pods, and also inside the pods. Having an APM would help us identify slow parts of the systems as a whole. Currently we have to find a needle in a haystack of "which metrics are going up".



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    Anil venkatesh
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  • 2.  RE: Need to setup Instana to our WorkLoad Cluster that has been deployed using ROKS VPC Gen2 In IBM Cloud

    Posted Tue July 16, 2024 01:09 PM

    We are able to deploy instana agent into the cluster by following the below doc. Thanks Instana Team for providing a good documentation.

    Installing the host agent on OpenShift - IBM Documentation



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    Anil venkatesh
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  • 3.  RE: Need to setup Instana to our WorkLoad Cluster that has been deployed using ROKS VPC Gen2 In IBM Cloud

    Posted Wed July 17, 2024 05:43 AM

    Hi Anil, glad that you were able to setup Instana. If you have another question let us know.



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    Israel Ochoa
    CSM Architect - Instana NCEE Market
    IBM
    Stockholm
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