Check and Enable First Observation

Created:2024-07-03 Last Modified:2024-08-23

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#1. Introduction

This chapter will guide you on how to check the running status and enable the first observation after completing the deployment of DeepFlow Agent.

#2. Check

#2.1 Check Collector Running Status

Check the list of collectors on the DeepFlow web page to confirm that the DeepFlow Agent is running.

Access path: System - Collectors - List, refer to the steps in the image below:

Check Collector Running Status

Check Collector Running Status

After checking, confirm that the collector is running and there are no abnormal messages before proceeding to the next step.

#2.2 Check Application Observability Data

Check the application call logs on the DeepFlow web page to confirm that the data collection function of the DeepFlow Agent has started running.

Access path: Tracing - Call Logs, refer to the steps in the image below:

Check Application Observability Data

Check Application Observability Data

After checking, confirm that the application call logs of the collector have been normally collected and displayed before proceeding to the next step.

#3. Start Your First Observation Journey

If you want to understand the status of your cloud resources, you can go to Resources - Resource Pool - Computing Resources/Network Resources, guide link.

If you want to understand the status of your container cluster resources and applications, you can go to Resources - Resource Pool - Container Resources - Container Cluster/Namespace/Container Node/Ingress/Container Service/Workload/Container POD, guide link.

If you want to observe the application topology of a specific cloud server or container service, you can go to Tracing - Topology Analysis, guide link.

If you want to observe the application performance of a specific cloud server or container service, you can go to Tracing - Resource Analysis, guide link.

If you want to perform distributed tracing for a specific business request, you can go to Tracing - Distributed Tracing, guide link.

If you want to continuously profile the performance of a specific application process, you can go to Profiling - Continuous Profiling, guide link.

If you want to observe the network traffic topology of a specific cloud server or container service, you can go to Network - Topology Analysis, guide link.

If you want to observe the network performance of a specific cloud server or container service, you can go to Network - Resource Analysis, guide link.

In addition, there are more observability usage methods waiting for you to explore...