Why is installing an agent only on an engineer's laptop inadequate for monitoring a production application?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
The agent is local by design. Wherever it runs is exactly what it can see. If you install it on your laptop, you're monitoring your laptop, not production.
Full Explanation
The correct choice is the statement that a host agent reports on the host it runs on, so it collects laptop telemetry and nothing about the production hosts running the application. Host agents observe processes, resources, and workloads on their own host. Running one elsewhere yields telemetry about that elsewhere, with no path to the production systems of interest. The claim that laptops cannot run the Instana agent at all is incorrect because agents run on developer machines perfectly well; the objection is what they see from there. The claim that laptop agents collect production data but at a reduced sampling rate is incorrect because there is no remote collection happening at any rate—the data is simply not available. The claim that laptop agents report to a separate backend that cannot be queried is incorrect because agents report to whichever backend they are configured for; the backend is not the issue. For the exam, place agents according to where the telemetry originates.