2 – 24/7 Service Guard for Instana
Harness 24/7 Service Guard monitors your live applications, catching problems that surface minutes or hours following deployment. For more information, see 24/7 Service Guard Overview.
You can add your Instana monitoring to Harness 24/7 Service Guard in your Harness Application Environment. For a setup overview, see Instana Connection Setup.
24/7 Service Guard Setup
To set up 24/7 Service Guard for Instana:
- Ensure that you have added Instana as a Harness Verification Provider, as described in Verification Provider Setup.
- In your Harness Application, ensure that you have added a Service, as described in Services. For 24/7 Service Guard, you do not need to add an Artifact Source to the Service, nor configure its settings. You simply need to create a Service, and name it. It will represent your application for 24/7 Service Guard.
- In your Harness Application, click Environments.
- In Environments, ensure that you have added an Environment for the Service you added. For steps on adding an Environment, see Environments.
- Click the Environment for your Service. Typically, the Environment Type is Production.
- In the Environment page, locate 24/7 Service Guard.
- In 24/7 Service Guard, click Add Service Verification, and select click Instana. The Instana dialog appears.
- Fill out the dialog. The dialog has the following fields.
Field | Description |
Display Name | The name that will identify this Service on the Continuous Verification dashboard. Use a name that indicates the Environment and monitoring tool, such as Instana. |
Service | The Harness Service to monitor with 24/7 Service Guard. |
Instana Server | Select the Instana Verification Provider to use. |
Application Metrics | This section is where you specify API endpoint metrics to monitor from Instana:
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Algorithm Sensitivity | See CV Strategies, Tuning, and Best Practices. Moderately sensitive is recommended. |
Enable 24/7 Service Guard | Select this check box to turn on 24/7 Service Guard monitoring with Instana. If you simply want to set up 24/7 Service Guard, but not yet enable it, leave this check box empty. |
When you are finished, the dialog will look something like this:

- Click Test. Harness verifies the settings that you entered.
- Click Submit. Instana 24/7 Service Guard monitoring is now configured.
To see the running 24/7 Service Guard analysis, click Continuous Verification.
The 24/7 Service Guard dashboard displays your production verification results.

For more information, see 24/7 Service Guard Overview.