AST Configuration Assistance

Can you check something quickly?
From your application-study-tool/ directory, which I believe you are already in (you can run "pwd" to confirm), run the following to spot check executable permissions for a few of the required directories:

ls -l ./services/otel_collector/
ls -l ./services/otel-collector-config/defaults/
ls -l ./services/grafana/
ls -l ./services/grafana/provisioning/
ls -l ./services/prometheus/

If these directories are not executable by "other", then you'll need to enable that permission. You can do so using the following command from the application-study-tool/ directory:

sudo chmod -R o+X services

(I also go into more detail on why this issue occurs and how to fix it in my blog, File Permissions Errors When Installing F5 Application Study Tool? Here’s Why.)