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3. Instana agent installation

Work In Progress

This lab is currently under development.

Instana agent installation​

In this section you will install Instana Agent to monitor your OCP cluster.

Helm chart​

Log in to your Instana UI, click on "Deploy agent" link as described on the below picture

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Select OpenShift and choose Helm installation option. Copy the helm chart installation script.

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Go back to your ssh console, paste the copied helm chart installation script and hit enter

helm install instana-agent \
   --repo https://agents.instana.io/helm \
   --namespace instana-agent \
   --create-namespace \
   --set openshift=true \
   --set agent.key=xxx \
   --set agent.downloadKey=xxxx \
   --set agent.endpointHost=xxx \
   --set agent.endpointPort=443 \
   --set cluster.name='YourClusterName' \
   --set zone.name='YourZoneName' \
   instana-agent

Make sure the installation was done by checking the below command output

oc project instana-agent
Now using project "instana-agent" on server "https://xxx:6443".

oc get pods
NAME                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
instana-agent-xxx           1/1     Running   0          27h
instana-agent-xxx           1/1     Running   0          27h
instana-agent-xxx           1/1     Running   0          27h
k8sensor-xxx-6rddc          1/1     Running   0          3d
k8sensor-xxx-btll6          1/1     Running   0          3d
k8sensor-xxx-qvn2s          1/1     Running   0          3d

Verify OpenShift monitoring​

Go to your Instana UI, click on "Kubernetes" left side menu. Ensure you are getting the metrics from your cluster.

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