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Setup collection using Snaps

Prerequisites:

Linux 5.4 or newer.
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Get a Service Account Token and Project ID

To send data to Polar Signals Cloud, you'll need:

A service account token for authentication
Your project ID to specify where the data should be sent

Please refer to the Generating Tokens documentation for detailed instructions.

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=<your-service-account-token>]
    - [set, parca-agent, remote-store-grpc-headers=projectID=<your-project-id>]
    - [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=<your-service-account-token>
sudo snap set parca-agent remote-store-grpc-headers=projectID=<your-project-id>
sudo snap start --enable parca-agent

Replace <your-service-account-token> with your actual service account token and <your-project-id> with your actual project ID.

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

Prerequisites: