Quick start guides

Get started with Instana by using the quick start guides that are tailored to your persona.

Choose the guide that matches your role:

• Quick start guide for all users — New to Instana or not sure where to start? This guide covers the essential tasks that apply to every role.

• Quick start guide for IT admins — You install and maintain Instana. This guide focuses on backend setup for self-hosted deployments, agent rollout, and access management.

• Quick start guide for developers — You write and ship code. This guide focuses on finding slow requests, investigating errors, and understanding how your service behaves in production.

• Quick start guide for Site Reliability Engineers — You own reliability targets and incident response. This guide focuses on SLOs, synthetic monitoring, and incident investigation.

• Quick start guide for DevOps engineers — You manage pipelines, deployments, and infrastructure automation. This guide focuses on deployment monitoring, Smart Alerts, and automated incident response.

Each guide walks through key tasks for that role and includes practical examples.