You can start a 30-day free trial of the VMware Tanzu Observability (formerly known as VMware Aria Operations for Applications) service from the VMware Cloud Services Console.
Tanzu Observability and VMware Cloud Services
Starting July 3, 2023, Tanzu Observability is a service in the VMware Cloud services platform.
Starting September 20, 2023, all new trial instances of Tanzu Observability are onboarded to VMware Cloud services.
VMware Cloud services provides provides single sign-on (SSO) and identity access management (IAM) to your entire VMware Cloud services portfolio across hybrid and native public clouds, including Tanzu Observability. See Getting Started with Tanzu Observability on VMware Cloud Services for details.
Start Your Free Trial
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Log in to the VMware Cloud Services Console with your VMware account.
Tip: If you don’t have a VMware account, you must create one. - From the navigation bar on the left, click Services.
- Click the All tab and search for Tanzu Observability.
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In the Tanzu Observability tile, click Access.
You are redirected to the Tanzu Observability marketing website.
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Click Start Free Trial, enter your contact information and company details, review the Terms of Service, and click Sign Up Now.
Tip: The company name that you provide will be used for the tenant name of your service instance.You are redirected back to the VMware Cloud Services Console.
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Select a VMware Cloud organization or create a new one.
Note: If you want to onboard the service to an existing organization, you must have the VMware Cloud Organization Owner role for that organization.To create an organization:
- Click Create New Organization.
- Enter an organization name.
- Enter the address for your organization or choose and existing one if you have already added an address for your account.
- Enter the payment details information.
- Review the Cloud Services Terms of Service and select the check box to agree.
Initially, you are the only user who belongs to the newly created organization. You have the Organization Owner role for that organization.
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Click Continue.
You are redirected to the Tanzu Observability GUI. You are logged with your VMware account.
Note: Initially, you have only the Viewer Tanzu Observability service role. As a VMware Cloud Organization Owner, you can change your roles. It’s recommended that when you start your free trial, you change your role to Super Admin. You can also add users to your service. See Manage User Accounts for details.