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ZN202G : Advanced Administering Environments with IBM Instana Observability

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In this course, you learn more about the basic architecture of IBM Instana and how to install various kinds of host agents in different modes. In addition, you learn how to optionally pin an agent to a specific version in case that is ever needed. You learn how to install agents on various platforms, such as a Docker, directly to the host, YAML, Operator, and Helm chart. This course also describes how to configure and instrument a website for End User Monitoring (EUM) along with a discussion about how to review website monitoring page metrics. You learn how to use the Web REST API to perform IBM Instana functions programmatically. And, since Instana is only capable of producing dashboards for a single Instana instance at a time, this course shows you how to integrate Grafana with one or more Instana instances to produce federated dashboards.

What You'll Learn

Review IBM Observability by Instana and basic architecture
Describe various host agent configuration and installation options and platforms
Describe version pinning
Install and configure Infrastructure-only mode host agents as Docker containers
Install and configure direct-to-host Infrastructure-only mode host agent
Add custom availability zone label
Install and configure a direct-to-host agent for a Linux-based Db2 server
Perform post-installation configuration, such as availability zone, full monitoring, and custom tags
Configure and deploy various kinds of Kubernetes based agents, including YAML, Operator, and Helm chart
Describe how to remove any of the types of agents installed
Describe the architecture of Instana Website Monitoring and instrument your websites with the Tracking Script
View website page metrics and dashboards and analyze page metrics
Use the Web REST API to perform Instana functions programmatically
Create API Tokens and set token permissions
Use the Instana OpenAPI documentation to locate API endpoints
Configure Instana for compatibility with Grafana and configure Grafana to be able to fetch metrics from Instana as a data source
Create Grafana dashboards of Instana metrics

Exercises

Exercise 1. Lab environment overview
Exercise 2. Installing a Docker Infrastructure agent on the Instana host
Exercise 3. Installing an Infrastructure agent directly on the Instana host
Exercise 4. Instana Db2 Agent Installation
Exercise 5. Installing host Agents in Kubernetes
Exercise 6. Website Monitoring
Exercise 7. Web REST API
Exercise 8. Grafana dashboards

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for those who need to know how to install agents, configure website monitoring, integrating with IBM Instana programmatically, and how to use Grafana to create federated dashboards of Instana data.

Prerequisites

Attended the TN201 Administering Environments with IBM Instana course or knowledge or experience with basic Instana architecture, using the Infrastructure view and Instana dashboards, an understanding of services and endpoints along with tracing and analytics features. Users, groups, dashboards, and alert channels are used in the Web REST API lab, so it is good to have a basic understanding of those topics.
Fundamental understanding of distributed applications.
Knowledge of Linux a plus

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Course introduction
Unit 1. Review: IBM Instana Observability
Exercise 1. Lab environment overview
Unit 2. Installing host agents
Exercise 2. Installing a Docker Infrastructure agent on the Instana host
Unit 3. Installing an Infrastructure agent directly on the Instana host
Exercise 3. Installing an Infrastructure agent directly on the Instana host
Unit 4. Instana Db2 agent installation
Exercise 4. Instana Db2 Agent Installation
Unit 5. Installing host agents in Kubernetes
Exercise 5. Installing host Agents in Kubernetes
Unit 6. Website monitoring
Exercise 6. Website Monitoring
Unit 7. Web REST API
Exercise 7. Web REST API
Unit 8. Grafana integrations
Exercise 8. Grafana dashboards
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ZN202G : Advanced Administering Environments with IBM Instana Observability

What You'll Learn

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Who Should Attend

Prerequisites

Learning Journey

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