Enabling IBM Instana Observability

You can optionally use IBM Instana® Observability to monitor your IBM Business Automation Insights deployment.

About this task

IBM Instana Observability is a real-time observability tool for monitoring Kubernetes workloads, operators, and application components.

Enabling Instana® in Business Automation Insights, provides:

Proactive monitoring of operands and application flows.
Alerting, resource tracking, and incident management.

For more information on Instana, see IBM Instana Serviceability documentation External link opens a new window or tab .

Procedure

Verify prerequisites.
- Ensure you have access to an Instana server (SaaS or stand-alone). For more information, see IBM Instana Observability > Planning
- Install Instana hosts agents on the same cluster where Business Automation Insights is deployed. For more information, see IBM Instana Observability > Installing host agents > Installing on Red Hat Openshift
Enable Instana monitoring during Business Automation Insights deployment

When running the deployment script, answer Yes when prompted to enable Instana monitoring.
Enable Instana monitoring for an existing Business Automation Insights deployment.
Edit the custom resource and set the property:
```
spec.shared_configuration.sc_enable_instana_metric_collection: true
```
For more information, see Shared configuration.
Important:
- Business Automation Insights does not support the IBM Instana AutoTrace webhook.
- Business Automation Insights does not support OpenTelemetry Integration for Node.js applications.
- Business Automation Insights does not control IBM Instana enablement for Cloud Pak foundational services. To enable IBM Instana for foundational services, see Enabling Instana metric collection for foundational services .
- Changing the value of the sc_enable_instana_metric_collection CR property will cause the Business Automation Insights pods to restart to apply changes.
- If the Instana Agent is installed on the same cluster as Business Automation Insights, CPU and memory metrics for Business Automation Insights pods appear out-of-the-box, even if the sc_enable_instana_metric_collection property is set to false.

What to do next

See Monitoring Business Automation Insights deployments in IBM Instana Observability.