Manual Installation
Production-safe manual rollout checklist for SDK and integrations
Use this path when you need explicit control over rollout phases.
1. Environment Setup
- Create separate keys per environment (
dev,staging,prod). - Define ingest endpoint and tenant/project identifiers.
- Store secrets in your secret manager (never in source code).
2. SDK Installation
Pick SDK by runtime:
Apply instrumentation first to one service.
3. Baseline Validation
Confirm:
- Data arrives continuously.
- Tags are consistent (
service,env,version). - Error and trace links are preserved.
4. Expand by Topology
- Add frontend correlation.
- Add async workers.
- Add edge/serverless runtimes.
5. Integration Hardening
- Configure runtime integration (Integrations).
- Add deployment metadata from CI/CD.
- Monitor ingestion errors and dropped events.
6. Operationalization
- Define incident playbooks.
- Set alert/triage ownership.
- Enable AI workflows (
Ask AI, MCP).