Amazon EC2/ Linux Server

Introduction

• The Postman Insights Agent runs as a systemd service on your server
• The Postman Insights project is populated with endpoints observed from the traffic arriving at your service.

Prerequisites

• Your server's OS supports systemd
• root user

Usage

• Log in as root user, or use sudo su to enable root before running the below command

POSTMAN_API_KEY=<postman-api-key> postman-insights-agent ec2 --project <postman-insights-project-id>

To check the status or logs please use

journalctl -fu postman-insights-agent

Why is root required?

• To enable and configure the agent as a systemd services
• Env Configuration file location /etc/default/postman-insights-agent
• Systemd service file location /usr/lib/systemd/system/postman-insights-agent.service

Uninstall

• You can disable the systemd service using

sudo systemctl disable --now postman-insights-agent