VMware Aria Operations for Applications Onboarding Guide

Logging in for the First Time

You should have received an invitation email with a link to activate your TO account. The email subject will include "You have been invited by <email> to Wavefront!"
After you’ve setup your account you can access your TO environment via <cluster>.wavefront.com.

You can find your cluster name from the link in the invitation email.
OPTIONAL: If you have Single Sign-On (SSO) configured:
- Once you enter your email address in your cluster’s login page the password field will disappear.
- Click Next. You’ll be redirected to your SSO identity provider.
- Continue the necessary authentication steps at your SSO identity provider.
- Once you’ve authenticated, you'll be redirected and logged into the TO user interface.

Note:

For TKG/Kubernetes, see the quick start guide here.

Otherwise, continue below.

After you’ve logged into your TO environment, click on Integrations in the menu bar
Each of the Integration tiles listed here has a Setup tab that provides step-by-step instructions on ingesting data. Each Integration also includes a set of dashboards that will populate with data once you complete the setup instructions. See the How to Use Out-of-the-Box Dashboards section for more information.
Let’s walk through setting up the AWS integration. Click on the Amazon Web Services tile in the Featured section
Click on the Setup tab and then, the Add Integration button
Enter in a name for this integration setup. This can be any name but it’s helpful to choose something that helps identify which AWS environment you want to configure. Then, follow the instructions on the right side to create a Role ARN and fill it in the specified field.
Click Register
You should now be able to see your setup listed in the Setup tab of the integration tile. It will look something like this
Once you see the green checkmarks next to METRICS and CONTENT at the top, AWS data is successfully being ingested into TO. See the How to Use Out-of-the-Box Dashboards section below to learn how to explore the available dashboards for AWS data.

Interested in learning more?

Navigate to the Integrations page and click on the integration of interest.
Note: A configured integration will have a green checkmark on it
After clicking on the tile, click on the Dashboards tab. You should see one or more dashboards listed. Open the dashboard of interest. Here’s an example from the AWS Integration (follow the instructions in the How to Ingest Data into TO section above to learn more about ingesting AWS data):
This 90-second video provides a great overview of how to interact with a dashboard

Interested in learning more?

Navigate to the Integrations page and click on the integration of interest.
Note: A configured integration will have a green checkmark on it
After opening the tile, click on the Alerts tab.
Note: Not all Integrations come with out-of-the-box alerts. Here is an example from the AWS Integration:
Click on “Install All”
Once the alerts are installed, you’ll notice that there is now an “edit” link next to each alert. There will also now be an “Uninstall All” button.
Click on “edit” for the alert of interest
The only configurable aspects of an out-of-the-box alert are tags and recipients. We can ignore tags for now. Scroll to the Recipients section
For the lowest severity level that you want notifications for, click on the + icon and type in your email. Hit enter on your keyboard
Click Save in the upper right.
When an alert fires, the notification will include a link to the Alert Viewer, which will allow you to investigate the alert. This short video provides a great overview of how to use the Alert Viewer.

Interested in learning more?

See this page for more information about Support.

To open a support ticket, click on the Gear Icon in the upper right of the TO UI and select Support
Note: You will also be able to access the Knowledge Base articles through this link
Click “Submit a ticket” in the upper right
Fill in the fields with information about your request and click Submit. Reserve the “Urgent” Priority level for production system down issues.

If you’re interested in learning more about how to use TO, you can access the self-paced Fundamentals Training Course through the Knowledge Base:

Within the TO UI, click the Gear Icon in the upper right and select Support
Note: You will also be able to access the Knowledge Base articles through this link
Locate the Onboarding section and click on "[Video] Tanzu Observability Fundamentals Training Course"