Provision the APM Dotnet Agent

Provision the APM Dotnet Agent in Windows

On successfully downloading the APM Dotnet agent, you can provision the APM Dotnet agent.

  1. Connect to the host where the application is installed and copy the APM Dotnet agent software file that you downloaded to any preferred location.
  2. Unzip the apm-dotnet-agent-installer-<version>.zip file to a destination directory.

    The destination directory is the directory in which the APM Dotnet agent is provisioned. For example:

    C:\tracer-home

    Take note of this value since it's used in the next step: Deploy the APM Dotnet Agent.

  3. Check the subdirectories created in the destination directory.
    The following subdirectories and files should exist:
    • AdditionalDeps
    • net
    • netfx
    • store
    • win-x64
    • win-x86
    • OpenTelemetry.DotNet.Auto.psm1

Provision the APM Dotnet Agent in Linux

On successfully downloading the APM Dotnet agent, you can provision the APM Dotnet agent.

  1. Connect to the host where the application is installed and copy the APM Dotnet agent software file that you downloaded to any preferred location.
  2. Extract the downloaded file to a destination directory.

    You can use the tar xvfz command or your preferred method.

    The destination directory is the directory in which the APM Dotnet Agent is provisioned. For example:

    ~/tracer-home

    Take note of the destination directory value since it's used during the APM Dotnet agent deployment.

  3. Check the subdirectories created in the destination directory.
    The following subdirectories should exist:
    • AdditionalDeps
    • linux-x64 (linux-musl-x64, linux-arm64, or linux-musl-arm64)
    • net
    • store