AppSignal Collector installation

To provide a complete picture of your application's infrastructure, you should monitor all servers your application depends on, such as database servers. You can do this by running the AppSignal Collector on those machines.

Installation methods

Choose the installation method that works best for your infrastructure. If you're using Docker (Compose) or Kubernetes, use the Docker image.

• Linux package: run the collector on the host you want to monitor.
• Docker image: run the collector on a Docker container to connect to other containers.

If you have more than one application, or instances of an application, we recommend installing the collector to your infrastructure on its own instance, which all applications can report to. This will improve our reporting as we can piece together instrumentation data across different applications (distributed tracing). It is also more resource intensive to install the collector separately on each host.