Installing the host agent on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Linux®

1. Sign in to Instana UI, and click More > Agents > Instana agent installation > AWS.

2. From the Technology list, select Elastic Computing (EC2) - Linux.

   Note: Your agent key and location are pre-populated in the script.

3. Copy and use the script that is shown as User Data. The script looks as follows, but pre-fill the script swith your agent key and host agent endpoint:

   #!/bin/bash
   
   curl -o setup_agent.sh https://setup.instana.io/agent && chmod 700 ./setup_agent.sh && \\
   sudo ./setup_agent.sh -a <your-agent-key> -t dynamic -e <host-agent-endpoint> -s -y
   

The script is based on the agent one-liner script for Linux, and it can be easily modified to accommodate a number of additional parameters as described in the Additional One-Liner parameters documentation.

For more information about how to use the installation script with User Data in AWS EC2, see the AWS documentation.

Windows®

1. Sign in to Instana UI, and click More > Agents > Instana agent installation > AWS.

2. From the Technology list, select Elastic Computing (EC2) - Windows.

   Note: Your agent key and location are pre-populated in the address.

Monitor AWS EC2 instances

For detailed information about AWS EC2 monitoring, see AWS EC2 documentation and blog post.