Instana Hands-on Labs' Scripts / Commands

Overview

This repo contains the copy-paste friendly scripts/commands for my Instana hands-on labs.

Currently, the labs incllude 3 parts:

Part 1. Instana Backend Installation
Lab 1.1 – Install Instana Classic Edition Manually
Lab 1.2 – Install Instana Classic Edition by Ansible Playbooks
Lab 1.3 – Install Instana Standard Edition by “stanctl”

Part 2. Core Capabilities & Use Cases
Lab 2.1 – A Quick Instana Tour
Lab 2.2 – The “Classic” App Stack Monitoring
Lab 2.3 – Website Monitoring
Lab 2.4 – Install & Manage Agents
Lab 2.5 – Application Monitoring
Lab 2.6 – Infrastructure Monitoring

Part 3. Advanced Topics
Lab 3.1 – Events, Analytics and Troubleshooting
Lab 3.2 – Alerts & Channels
Lab 3.3 – SLO Monitoring with Custom Dashboard
Lab 3.4 – RBAC & User Onboarding
Lab 3.5 – Custom Metrics (e.g. Cert Expiry Check)
Lab 3.6 – Configuration-based Instrumentation
Lab 3.7 – OpenTelemetry Support in Instana
Lab 3.8 – Language-specific apps monitoring practices - Python
Lab 3.9 – Language-specific apps monitoring practices - Node.js

How to obtain the scripts/commands?

git clone https://github.com/brightzheng100/instana-handson-labs.git
cd instana-handson-labs
ls -l

Versions

The labs are evolving.

Current Labs Architecture, aka V3

Current labs architecture is dynamic, which will be transitioned from VM-based to Kubeadm-bootstrapped Kubernetes based experience.

This is the current labs architecture:

git clone https://github.com/brightzheng100/instana-handson-labs.git
cd instana-handson-labs
ls -l

Previous Labs Architecture, aka V1, V2

V1, v2 were based on Kind for Kubernetes and footloose for VM-based experience, like this:

But actually these environments are not officially supported even they work.

If you really want to try it out, do this:

git clone https://github.com/brightzheng100/instana-handson-labs.git
cd instana-handson-labs
git checkout labs-v2
ls -l