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APM Attacher for Kubernetes

Instrument and configure pods

Serverless Observability Stack

To instrument and configure your application pods, complete the following steps:

Add the helm repository to Helm
Configure the webhook with a Helm values file
Install the webhook with Helm
Add a pod template annotation to each pod you want to auto-instrument
Watch data flow into the Elastic Stack

APM Attacher for Kubernetes

Add the helm repository to Helm

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