Perform Trace Explorer Prerequisite Tasks

Here’s the typical workflow of the prerequisite tasks that must be performed before you use Trace Explorer:

Task	More Information
Obtain the required Application Performance Monitoring and Monitoring service permissions.	See Create Policies
Create an APM domain.	See Create an APM Domain
Install and configure Application Performance Monitoring data sources to upload trace data to Application Performance Monitoring. For example: To upload application server spans, you must provision and deploy an APM Java agent on an application server. To upload browser spans to monitor end-user experience, you must configure the APM Browser agent.	See Configure Application Performance Monitoring Data Sources

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Obtain the required Application Performance Monitoring and Monitoring service permissions.

Create an APM domain.

Install and configure Application Performance Monitoring data sources to upload trace data to Application Performance Monitoring.

For example:

To upload application server spans, you must provision and deploy an APM Java agent on an application server.
To upload browser spans to monitor end-user experience, you must configure the APM Browser agent.