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.

Checking the status of the host agent

After you install the host agent, you can check the status of the host agent in the Instana UI or on the host. For more information, see Checking the status of the host agent.