openapi: 3.0.1
info:
contact:
email: support@instana.com
name: © Instana
url: http://instana.com
termsOfService: https://www.instana.com/terms-of-use/
title: Instana REST API documentation Custom Dashboards API
version: 1.307.1417
x-ibm-ahub-try: true
x-logo:
altText: instana logo
backgroundColor: '#FAFBFC'
url: header-logo.svg
description: "Searching for answers and best pratices? Check our [IBM Instana Community](https://community.ibm.com/community/user/aiops/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=58f324a3-3104-41be-9510-5b7c413cc48f).\n\n<div style=\"background-color:#e6f0ff; padding: 12px; border-left: 6px solid #0052cc; font-size: 14px; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\n <img src=\"https://img.icons8.com/ios-filled/50/0052cc/info.png\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" style=\"margin-right: 8px;\" alt=\"info icon\"/>\n <span>\n <b>Our API documentation is moving to</b> \n <a href=\"https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/instana--instana-rest-api/Introduction\" target=\"_blank\">API Hub</a>\n\t — please update your bookmarks now, as the current site will be deprecated after Release-306.\n </span>\n</div>\n\n## Overview\nThe Instana REST API provides programmatic access to the Instana platform. It can be used to retrieve data available through the Instana UI Dashboard -- metrics, events, traces, etc -- and also to automate configuration tasks such as user management.\n\n### Navigating the API documentation\nThe API endpoints are grouped by product area and functionality. This generally maps to how our UI Dashboard is organized, hopefully making it easier to locate which endpoints you'd use to fetch the data you see visualized in our UI. The [UI sections](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=working-user-interface#navigation-menu) include:\n- Websites & Mobile Apps\n- Applications\n- Infrastructure\n- Synthetic Monitoring\n- Events\n- Automation\n- Service Levels\n- Settings\n- etc\n\n### Rate Limiting\nA rate limit is applied to API usage. Up to 5,000 calls per hour can be made. How many remaining calls can be made and when this call limit resets, can inspected via three headers that are part of the responses of the API server.\n\n- **X-RateLimit-Limit:** Shows the maximum number of calls that may be executed per hour.\n- **X-RateLimit-Remaining:** How many calls may still be executed within the current hour.\n- **X-RateLimit-Reset:** Time when the remaining calls will be reset to the limit. For compatibility reasons with other rate limited APIs, this date is not the date in milliseconds, but instead in seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00.\n\n### Further Reading\nWe provide additional documentation for our REST API in our [product documentation](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=apis-web-rest-api). Here you'll also find some common queries for retrieving data and configuring Instana.\n\n## Getting Started with the REST API\n\n### API base URL\nThe base URL for an specific instance of Instana can be determined using the tenant and unit information.\n- `base`: This is the base URL of a tenant unit, e.g. `https://test-example.instana.io`. This is the same URL that is used to access the Instana user interface.\n- `apiToken`: Requests against the Instana API require valid API tokens. An initial API token can be generated via the Instana user interface. Any additional API tokens can be generated via the API itself.\n\n### Curl Example\nHere is an Example to use the REST API with Curl. First lets get all the available metrics with possible aggregations with a GET call.\n\n```bash\ncurl --request GET \\\n --url https://test-instana.instana.io/api/application-monitoring/catalog/metrics \\\n --header 'authorization: apiToken xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'\n```\n\nNext we can get every call grouped by the endpoint name that has an error count greater then zero. As a metric we could get the mean error rate for example.\n\n```bash\ncurl --request POST \\\n --url https://test-instana.instana.io/api/application-monitoring/analyze/call-groups \\\n --header 'authorization: apiToken xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' \\\n --header 'content-type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\n \"group\":{\n \"groupbyTag\":\"endpoint.name\"\n },\n \"tagFilters\":[\n \t{\n \t\t\"name\":\"call.error.count\",\n \t\t\"value\":\"0\",\n \t\t\"operator\":\"GREATER_THAN\"\n \t}\n ],\n \"metrics\":[\n \t{\n \t\t\"metric\":\"errors\",\n \t\t\"aggregation\":\"MEAN\"\n \t}\n ]\n }'\n```\n\n### Generating REST API clients\n\nThe API is specified using the [OpenAPI v3](https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification) (previously known as Swagger) format.\nYou can download the current specification at our [GitHub API documentation](https://instana.github.io/openapi/openapi.yaml).\n\nOpenAPI tries to solve the issue of ever-evolving APIs and clients lagging behind. Please make sure that you always use the latest version of the generator, as a number of improvements are regularly made.\nTo generate a client library for your language, you can use the [OpenAPI client generators](https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator).\n\n#### Go\nFor example, to generate a client library for Go to interact with our backend, you can use the following script; mind replacing the values of the `UNIT_NAME` and `TENANT_NAME` environment variables using those for your tenant unit:\n\n```bash\n#!/bin/bash\n\n### This script assumes you have the `java` and `wget` commands on the path\n\nexport UNIT_NAME='myunit' # for example: prod\nexport TENANT_NAME='mytenant' # for example: awesomecompany\n\n//Download the generator to your current working directory:\nwget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/openapitools/openapi-generator-cli/4.3.1/openapi-generator-cli-4.3.1.jar -O openapi-generator-cli.jar --server-variables \"tenant=${TENANT_NAME},unit=${UNIT_NAME}\"\n\n//generate a client library that you can vendor into your repository\njava -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -i https://instana.github.io/openapi/openapi.yaml -g go \\\n -o pkg/instana/openapi \\\n --skip-validate-spec\n\n//(optional) format the Go code according to the Go code standard\ngofmt -s -w pkg/instana/openapi\n```\n\nThe generated clients contain comprehensive READMEs, and you can start right away using the client from the example above:\n\n```go\nimport instana \"./pkg/instana/openapi\"\n\n// readTags will read all available application monitoring tags along with their type and category\nfunc readTags() {\n\tconfiguration := instana.NewConfiguration()\n\tconfiguration.Host = \"tenant-unit.instana.io\"\n\tconfiguration.BasePath = \"https://tenant-unit.instana.io\"\n\n\tclient := instana.NewAPIClient(configuration)\n\tauth := context.WithValue(context.Background(), instana.ContextAPIKey, instana.APIKey{\n\t\tKey: apiKey,\n\t\tPrefix: \"apiToken\",\n\t})\n\n\ttags, _, err := client.ApplicationCatalogApi.GetApplicationTagCatalog(auth)\n\tif err != nil {\n\t\tfmt.Fatalf(\"Error calling the API, aborting.\")\n\t}\n\n\tfor _, tag := range tags {\n\t\tfmt.Printf(\"%s (%s): %s\\n\", tag.Category, tag.Type, tag.Name)\n\t}\n}\n```\n\n#### Java\nFollow the instructions provided in the official documentation from [OpenAPI Tools](https://github.com/OpenAPITools) to download the [openapi-generator-cli.jar](https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator?tab=readme-ov-file#13---download-jar).\n\nDepending on your environment, use one of the following java http client implementations which will create a valid client for our OpenAPI specification:\n```\n//Nativ Java HTTP Client\njava -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -i https://instana.github.io/openapi/openapi.yaml -g java -o pkg/instana/openapi --skip-validate-spec -p dateLibrary=java8 --library native\n\n//Spring WebClient\njava -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -i https://instana.github.io/openapi/openapi.yaml -g java -o pkg/instana/openapi --skip-validate-spec -p dateLibrary=java8,hideGenerationTimestamp=true --library webclient\n\n//Spring RestTemplate\njava -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -i https://instana.github.io/openapi/openapi.yaml -g java -o pkg/instana/openapi --skip-validate-spec -p dateLibrary=java8,hideGenerationTimestamp=true --library resttemplate\n\n```\n"
servers:
- description: Instana Backend
url: https://{unit}-{tenant}.instana.io
variables:
tenant:
default: tenant
description: Customer tenant unit
unit:
default: unit
description: Customer tenant name
- description: Instana Self-Hosted Backend
url: https://{domain}
variables:
domain:
default: example.com
description: Customer Self-Hosted domain
tags:
- name: Custom Dashboards
description: 'You can use these API endpoints to manage custom dashboards. We recommend
that you leverage the `Edit as JSON` feature found within our user interface
to construct the desired request payloads. Specifically to help you build
correct widget configurations and access rules.
To identify the correct values for the `relatedId` field of the access rules,
we recommend using the `/api/custom-dashboard/shareable-users` and
`/api/custom-dashboard/shareable-api-tokens` endpoints. These endpoints return
our internal IDs for users and API tokens.'
paths:
/api/custom-dashboard:
get:
description: 'Get all accessible custom dashboards details.
For more information on custom dashboards please access the https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/instana--instana-rest-api/Settings#custom-dashboards.'
operationId: getCustomDashboards
parameters:
- description: query
example: BeeInstana
in: query
name: query
schema:
type: string
- description: pageSize
example: 2
in: query
name: pageSize
schema:
type: integer
format: int32
- description: page
example: 1
in: query
name: page
schema:
type: integer
format: int32
- description: withTotalHits
example: false
in: query
name: withTotalHits
schema:
type: boolean
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
example:
- id: gBtvG96xRpScauwsclG-KA
title: BeeInstana - aggregator
annotations:
- SHARED
- id: UtaUyPjGSTOAmPFICSbwqw
title: BeeInstana - alerting
annotations:
- SHARED
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomDashboardPreview'
description: OK
security:
- ApiKeyAuth:
- Default
summary: Get accessible custom dashboards
tags:
- Custom Dashboards
x-ibm-ahub-byok: true
post:
description: '
For more information on custom dashboards please access the https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/instana--instana-rest-api/Settings#custom-dashboards.'
operationId: addCustomDashboard
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomDashboard'
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomDashboard'
description: OK
'403':
description: When attempting to share dashboards without the canCreatePublicCustomDashboards permission.
'422':
description: When the custom dashboard payload is invalid.
security:
- ApiKeyAuth:
- Default
summary: Add custom dashboard
tags:
- Custom Dashboards
x-ibm-ahub-byok: true
/api/custom-dashboard/shareable-api-tokens:
get:
description: 'Get all API tokens that have access to shareable custom dashboards.
For more information on custom dashboards please access the https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/instana--instana-rest-api/Settings#custom-dashboards.'
operationId: getShareableApiTokens
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
example:
- id: foJfJVpyS5eAQAhfxSRctw
name: New API Token
- id: O_OKWG48S2WemaL_e3j_vQ
name: New API Token
- id: ATBzggrzTE-aRpUMBLmG9g
name: New API Token
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DashboardApiToken'
description: OK
security:
- ApiKeyAuth:
- Default
- ApiKeyAuth:
- CreatePublicCustomDashboards
summary: Get all API tokens.
tags:
- Custom Dashboards
x-ibm-ahub-byok: true
/api/custom-dashboard/shareable-users:
get:
description: 'Get all users (without invitations) that have access to shareable custom dashboards.
For more information on custom dashboards please access the https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/instana--instana-rest-api/Settings#custom-dashboards.'
operationId: getShareableUsers
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
example:
- id: 63721be55108940001ead6fa
email: JohnMcClane@instana.com
fullName: John McClane
- id: 6360a5ad034a430001c500d0
email: HansGruber@instana.com
fullName: Hans Gruber
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/UserBasicResult'
description: OK
security:
- ApiKeyAuth:
- Default
- ApiKeyAuth:
- CreatePublicCustomDashboards
summary: Get all users (without invitations).
tags:
- Custom Dashboards
x-ibm-ahub-byok: true
/api/custom-dashboard/{customDashboardId}:
delete:
description: '
For more information on custom dashboards please access the https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/instana--instana-rest-api/Settings#custom-dashboards.'
operationId: deleteCustomDashboard
parameters:
- in: path
name: customDashboardId
required: true
schema:
type: string
responses:
'204':
description: Custom dashboard successfully removed
security:
- ApiKeyAuth:
- Default
summary: Remove custom dashboard
tags:
- Custom Dashboards
x-ibm-ahub-byok: true
get:
description: 'Get all Custom Dashboard Info for specified customDashboardId.
For more information on custom dashboards please access the https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/instana--instana-rest-api/Settings#custom-dashboards.'
operationId: getCustomDashboard
parameters:
- description: customDashboardId
example: alHaYV5aSkKku_wcg53teQ
in: path
name: customDashboardId
required: true
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
example: "{\n \"id\": \"alHaYV5aSkKku_wcg53teQ\",\n \"title\": \"{string}\",\n \"accessRules\": [\n {\n \"accessType\": \"READ_WRITE\",\n \"relationType\": \"USER\",\n \"relatedId\": \"5ee8a3e8cd70020001ecb007\"\n },\n {\n \"accessType\": \"READ\",\n \"relationType\": \"GLOBAL\",\n \"relatedId\": null\n }\n ],\n \"widgets\": [\n {\n \"id\": \"dIxxq0LCdqZomve2\",\n \"title\": \"SUM of bytes received for a particular container\",\n \"width\": 2,\n \"height\": 4,\n \"x\": 0,\n \"y\": 0,\n \"type\": \"bigNumber\",\n \"config\": {\n \"formatter\": \"bytes.detailed\",\n \"comparisonDecreaseColor\": \"greenish\",\n \"metricConfiguration\": {\n \"metric\": \"network.rx.bytes\",\n \"timeShift\": 0,\n \"tagFilterExpression\": {\n \"name\": \"docker.containerId\",\n \"type\": \"TAG_FILTER\",\n \"value\": \"faaa7f1732d16faa7fc27a0cb49fdf5c07716f3d3be1315e20f24d099657bbe0\",\n \"entity\": \"NOT_APPLICABLE\",\n \"operator\": \"EQUALS\"\n },\n \"aggregation\": \"SUM\",\n \"source\": \"INFRASTRUCTURE_METRICS\",\n \"crossSeriesAggregation\": \"SUM\",\n \"type\": \"docker\"\n },\n \"comparisonIncreaseColor\": \"redish\"\n }\n }\n ],\n \"writable\": true,\n \"ownerId\": {string}\n}\n"
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomDashboardWithUserSpecificInformation'
description: OK
security:
- ApiKeyAuth:
- Default
summary: Get custom dashboard
tags:
- Custom Dashboards
x-ibm-ahub-byok: true
put:
description: '
For more information on custom dashboards please access the https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/instana--instana-rest-api/Settings#custom-dashboards.'
operationId: updateCustomDashboard
parameters:
- in: path
name: customDashboardId
required: true
schema:
type: string
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomDashboard'
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomDashboard'
description: OK
'403':
description: When attempting to share dashboards without the canCreatePublicCustomDashboards permission.
'422':
description: When the custom dashboard payload is invalid.
security:
- ApiKeyAuth:
- Default
summary: Update custom dashboard
tags:
- Custom Dashboards
x-ibm-ahub-byok: true
components:
schemas:
CustomDashboardWithUserSpecificInformation:
type: object
properties:
accessRules:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AccessRule'
maxItems: 64
minItems: 1
id:
type: string
ownerId:
type: string
title:
type: string
widgets:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Widget'
maxItems: 128
minItems: 0
uniqueItems: true
writable:
type: boolean
required:
- accessRules
- id
- ownerId
- title
- widgets
- writable
Widget:
type: object
properties:
config:
type: object
height:
type: integer
format: int32
minimum: 1
id:
type: string
maxLength: 64
minLength: 0
title:
type: string
type:
type: string
width:
type: integer
format: int32
maximum: 12
minimum: 1
x:
type: integer
format: int32
maximum: 11
minimum: 0
y:
type: integer
format: int32
minimum: 0
required:
- config
- id
- type
CustomDashboard:
type: object
properties:
accessRules:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AccessRule'
maxItems: 64
minItems: 1
id:
type: string
title:
type: string
widgets:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Widget'
maxItems: 128
minItems: 0
uniqueItems: true
required:
- accessRules
- id
- title
- widgets
UserBasicResult:
type: object
properties:
email:
type: string
fullName:
type: string
id:
type: string
required:
- email
- fullName
- id
AccessRule:
type: object
properties:
accessType:
type: string
description: "Specifies the type of access permitted. \n\n`READ`: Only viewing Application Perspective is allowed. \n\n`READ_WRITE`: Both viewing and modifying Application Perspective are permitted. \n\n"
enum:
- READ
- READ_WRITE
relatedId:
type: string
description: "An identifier that connects the access rule to a specific entity.\nFor example, if the `relationType` is `USER`, the corresponding `relatedId` would be a user id. \n\n**Note**: when `relationType` is `GLOBAL`, `relatedId` is `null`.\n"
maxLength: 64
minLength: 0
relationType:
type: string
description: "Defines the type of relationship or subject to which the access rule applies. \n\n`USER`: Access is granted to an individual user. \n\n`API_TOKEN`: Access is granted to a specific API token. \n\n`ROLE`: Access is granted based on a user role, applying to any user with that role. \n\n`TEAM`: Access is granted to a team, likely applying to all team members. \n\n`GLOBAL`: Access is granted to every user or service.\n"
enum:
- USER
- API_TOKEN
- ROLE
- TEAM
- GLOBAL
required:
- accessType
- relationType
DashboardApiToken:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
name:
type: string
required:
- id
- name
CustomDashboardPreview:
type: object
properties:
annotations:
type: array
items:
type: string
enum:
- SHARED
- WRITABLE
maxItems: 8
minItems: 0
uniqueItems: true
id:
type: string
maxLength: 64
minLength: 0
ownerId:
type: string
title:
type: string
required:
- annotations
- id
- ownerId
- title
securitySchemes:
ApiKeyAuth:
in: header
name: authorization
type: apiKey
description: "## Example\n\n```bash\ncurl --request GET \\\n --url https://test-instana.instana.io/api/application-monitoring/catalog/metrics \\\n --header 'authorization: apiToken xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'\n```\n"
x-tagGroups:
- name: Websites & Mobile Apps
tags:
- Website Metrics
- Website Catalog
- Website Analyze
- Website Configuration
- Mobile App Metrics
- Mobile App Catalog
- Mobile App Analyze
- Mobile App Configuration
- End User Monitoring
- name: Applications
tags:
- Application Metrics
- Application Resources
- Application Catalog
- Application Analyze
- Application Settings
- Application Topology
- Application Alert Configuration
- Global Application Alert Configuration
- name: Infrastructure
tags:
- Infrastructure Analyze
- Infrastructure Metrics
- Infrastructure Resources
- Infrastructure Catalog
- Infrastructure Topology
- name: Logging
tags:
- Logging Analyze
- name: Synthetic Monitoring
tags:
- Synthetic Catalog
- Synthetic Metrics
- Synthetic Settings
- Synthetic Test Playback Results
- Synthetic Alert Configuration
- name: Logs
tags:
- Log Alert Configuration
- name: Events
tags:
- Events
- Event Settings
- name: Automation
tags:
- Action Catalog
- Action History
- Policies
- name: Service Levels
tags:
- SLI Settings
- SLI Report
- Apdex Settings
- Apdex Report
- Service Levels Objective(SLO) Configurations
- Service Levels Objective(SLO) Report
- Service Levels Alert Configuration
- SLO Correction Configurations
- SLO Correction Windows
- name: AI Management
tags:
- AI Management
- name: Settings
tags:
- Custom Dashboards
- User
- Groups
- Teams
- Roles
- Audit Log
- API Token
- Maintenance Configuration
- Synthetic Calls
- Session Settings
- Automation Settings
- Authentication
- name: Open Beta Features
tags:
- Infrastructure Analyze
- name: Closed Beta Features
tags:
- Infrastructure Alert Configuration
- name: Instana
tags:
- Releases
- Host Agent
- Health
- Usage