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Setup collection using Snaps

Prerequisites:​

Get an API token​

To be able to send any data to Polar Signals Cloud, we're going to need an API token for the collection mechanism to authenticate with the Polar Signals API.

Please refer to the Generating Tokens documentation that has more details.

Bootstrap with cloud-init​

If you're on a cloud or hypervisor that supports cloud-init you can get started easily like so:

#cloud-config
snap:
  commands:
    - [install, parca-agent, --classic]
    - [set, parca-agent, remote-store-bearer-token=<token>]
    - [start, --enable, parca-agent]

Install manually​

To setup collection on a machine that's already provisioned, use the following steps:

sudo snap install parca-agent --classic
sudo snap set parca-agent remote-store-bearer-token=<token>
sudo snap start --enable parca-agent

Learn more about the Parca Agent snap in the Parca docs.