Advanced Administering Environments with IBM Instana Observability

IBM Training for Advanced Administering Environments with IBM Instana Observability

Skill Level: Advanced

Modality: CR - Classroom based Trainng or ILO - Instructor Led Online Class

Duration: 2 Day/s

Starting Price: $ - 1,450

Overview:

Learn how to install agents, configure website monitoring, integrating with IBM Instana programmatically, and how to use Grafana to create federated dashboards of Instana data.

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.

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Target Audience:

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..

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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

Topic: 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

Course summary

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Objective: 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

Category: Automation

Product Name:

IBM Instana Observability

Badge and Certification Info:

Badge Title: Advanced Administering Environments with IBM Instana Observability - Code: TN202G

Badge ID: 22ba8f50-ade9-4542-aa3c-204f37b55400

Brand: Management and Platform

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