Application Perspective in Instana
In the section of the labs, we will create an Application Perspective in Instana, so that we can see all of the metrics and traces collected from the OpenTelemetry Demo Application.
An Application Perspective in Instana is a feature designed for monitoring, alerting, and analyzing microservice environments. It allows users to dynamically scope the visibility of their applications to focus on specific services, dependencies, technologies, business transactions, user journeys, deployment engines, versions, or releases.
Key features and benefits of Application Perspectives:
- Focused Monitoring: Application Perspectives help teams stay focused on the services they are interested in, reducing distractions from unrelated components. This targeted approach ensures that alerts, errors, and logs are scoped to the relevant application perspective, streamlining troubleshooting.
- Dynamic Scoping: Users can specify subsets of services and their dependencies based on various criteria such as zones, clusters, technologies, or cluster namespaces. This flexibility allows for customized monitoring setups that meet specific needs.
- Security and Visibility: Organizations can use Application Perspectives to limit visibility to certain infrastructure and services, enhancing security by controlling access to sensitive data.
- Automated Dashboards: Each Application Perspective auto-generates a feature-rich monitoring dashboard that displays key metrics and golden signals, providing a comprehensive view of the application's health and performance.
Create an Application in Instana
Let's create an application perspective in Instana. Log in to your Instana UI and create a new application perspective as described in the below picture:
Switch to "Advanced mode" and provide all necessary values like name of your choice, scope.
To configured the "Scope" please type "kubernetes pod" and then select "namespace" as described on the below picture
Once the scope is configured, select "All downstream services" and "All calls", click "Create".
In a few moments, the new Application Perspective will be created. The scope
will be limited only to the defined area - in your case, Instana will display
data only for pods located under the otel-demo namespace.
Please note the fact, that Application Perspective will not present data from the time before its creation. Application Perspective will collect data only from the moment of when it was defined.
Review Application Perspective
After a few minutes, you should be able to see the metrics collected and displayed as a part of your new Application Perspective.
Please navigate to the otel-demo Application Perspective to review the content.
Presented traces and metrics are coming directly from the OpenTelemetry Demo Application using OpenTelemetry protocol. During this lab, we have not installed or configured tracing collection from native Instana toolbox.
Summary
In this section, you've learnt how to create an Application Perspective. Please proceed to the next section of the labs.