Enabling the Driven Beta API

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With a Driven Beta API key, you can use an online hosted service to try out more application performance monitoring features.

Obtaining the API Key

Create an account by registering at the Driven Beta website. Driven is free for development use.
Enter your account username and password on the Driven Beta login page.
Copy the API key that appears after you log in to the Driven Beta site.

Note	If you utilize Driven with more than one team, you must use separate, team-specific API keys to segment application runs accordingly.

Tip	You can find the API key of a team by selecting your user name on the top right corner > My Teams. See Configuring Teams for Collaboration for additional information.

Integrating the API Key with the Driven Plugin

AWS users: See the Amazon EMR documentation for how to integrate the Driven API with the plugin. Other environments: Expose the API key to the Driven Plugin by one of the following methods, depending on your environment and preferences:

Option 1: Create the cascading-service.properties file in your Hadoop configuration directory ($HADOOP_CONF). For Hadoop 1.x, this may be $HADOOP_HOME/conf. For Hadoop 2.x, the directory is $HADOOP_INSTALL/etc/hadoop. Example:
```
$ echo cascading.management.document.service.apikey=${API_KEY} >> $HADOOP_CONF/cascading-service.properties
```
Option 2: Set a local environment variable. Example:
```
$ export DRIVEN_API_KEY=${API_KEY}
```
Option 3: Set a Java system property named cascading.management.document.service.apikey. Example:
```
-Dcascading.management.document.service.apikey=${API_KEY} ....
```

For More Information

See the Documentation Sitemap for Driven Beta to learn about features in more depth and to discover additional resources.