Installing Java Agent in a Spring Boot application

Note

Refer to this help page for the previous steps.

Extract the zip file to a new directory to find agent jar and its configuration files
Open apminsight.conf file in any text editor and add license.key value, which can be obtained from Site24x7 APM Insight page. Refer here to fine tune the agent settings.

Add the following argument to your application startup command.

java -javaagent:<agent_directory_full_path>/apminsight-javaagent.jar <your_application_JVM_args_if_any> -jar <spring_application>.jar

Example:

java -javaagent:/opt/apm/apminsight-javaagent.jar -jar <spring_appliction>.jar

Here's a quick video on how to install a Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent in a Spring Boot application.