Labs Overview

In the Instana labs of the AIOps Jam-in-a-Box series you will be going through several key exercises in order to learn more about Instana.

There are four Instana labs:

• Server & Agent Installation
  • Install a single server self-hosted K3s based Instana.
  • Install the Instana Agent into a variety of environments.
• Applications & IBM Middleware
  • Install and monitor the Demo Application Robot Shop
  • Setup monitoring sensors for IBM MQ and IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE).
• Explore Instana
  • Create Application Perspectives for demo applications.
  • Learn about the different monitoring views, such as; Applications, Infrastructure, Websites & Mobile Apps and how to use them.
• Administer Instana
  • Learn about the different alerting options in Instana; set up Alert Channels, Smart Alerts and events.

More labs will be added in the future to explore more advanced scenarios and features of Instana.

Additional Enablement Resources

• Partner access and enablement presentation containing:
  • Demo and Sandbox environments.
  • Instana 8-part technical essentials series:
    • A good set of prerequisite overviews for Jam-in-a-Box hands-on labs.
  • License keys for these labs and self-enablement.
  • And more...
• Community blogs and forums.