Monitoring microservices applications on VMware Tanzu

Overview

Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu is a turn-key Application Performance Management solution that provides immediate and granular visibility across all layers of your VMware Tanzu Foundation: the applications running on VMware Tanzu, the services they consume, and the infrastructure that hosts them. Instana's AutoTrace technology automatically and imimediately provides observability and collects health data so your developers can focus on delivering high quality, business critical applications.

Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu helps you:

• Immediately understand the impact of every release so you can take quick action when deployments go wrong
• Automatically organize all infrastructure and application data into context-rich dependency relationships so you can immediately get to the root cause of any issue
• Confidently deploy software faster with fewer performance and quality defects

For more information about Instana's AutoTrace technology, see the Instana documentation, Core concepts.

Key Features

Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu includes the following key features:

• Fully automated deployment of the Instana agent across an entire VMware Tanzu foundation
• Continuous discovery and automatic monitoring of Cloud Foundry applications

Product Snapshot

The following table provides version and version-support information about Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu.

Requirements

Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu has the following requirements:

• The coordinates of the Instana backend: endpoint and endpoint port
• Instana agent key

All the configurations required for configuring the Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile for your VMware Tanzu foundation are available in the More > Management Portal > Install Agent > Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile section in the Instana backend.

If you do not already have an Instana backend, Instana offers a self-service trial that is entirely compatible with the Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile: see the Instana Free Trial page.

Limitations

Monitoring .NET Core applications running with the dotnet-buildpack is supported for non self-contained applications; see the Deploying DotNet Core Apps with the DotNet Core Buildpack section for more information.

Tracing PHP applications running with the PHP buildpack is not supported. The Instana agent does not automatically trace them.

Tracing Python applications running with the Python buildpack requires following the "Activating without code changes" method described in the Python sensor documentation. The supported activation method requires setting an environment variable, which can be specified in the cf push manifest as shown in the Deploying with App Manifests documentation of Cloud Foundry.

Windows-based Diego Cells are not supported. The Instana agent will not be installed on the Windows-based Diego cells.

Feedback

If you have a feature request, questions, or information about an issue bug visit Instana here.

License

Before deploying the Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile, you must procure an Instana backend or SaaS tenant unit. The Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile is automatically configured to use APM licenses on Diego Cells and Infrastructure licenses everywhere else; for more information about Instana licenses see Instana's Pricing.

If you do not already have an Instana backend, Instana offers a self-service trial that is entirely compatible with the Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile: see the Instana Free Trial page.

For information about licensing, see the Instana terms of use.