# Instana **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/instana/ **Website:** https://www.ibm.com/products/instana **APIs profiled:** 62 Instana is an enterprise observability and application performance monitoring platform that provides automated full-stack visibility and AI-powered APM. Instana offers a public REST API for programmatic access to monitoring data, configurations, and integrations. ## Kin Score — 25.9 / 100 (emerging) Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 25.9). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 40.7 | | Contract Quality | 59.3 | | Governance | 0.0 | | Contract Governance | 0.0 | | Operational Transparency | 7.9 | | Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 | | Commercial Clarity | 15.8 | | Access Clarity | 15.8 | ## Agent readiness — 24.7 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | no | | Reversibility Documented | documented | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | bearer | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | | Delegated Identity | no | | Protected Resource Metadata | no | | Dynamic Client Registration | no | | Agentic Commerce | no | ## Access Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium). ## APIs (62) - **Instana Action Catalog API** — The Action Catalog API from Instana — 5 operation(s) for action catalog. - **Instana Action History API** — The Action History API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for action history. - **Instana AI Management API** — The AI Management API from Instana — 4 operation(s) for ai management. - **Instana Apdex Report API** — The Apdex Report API from Instana — 1 operation(s) for apdex report. - **Instana Apdex Settings API** — The Apdex Settings API from Instana — 3 operation(s) for apdex settings. - **Instana API Token API** — API Tokens are unique strings that are used to authenticate and authorize access to the API. These are used to secure API endpoints and ensure that only authorized users can acc... - **Instana Application Alert Configuration API** — The API endpoints of this group can be used to manage Application alert configurations. ## Parameters: - **id:** ID of the application alert config which needs to be updated. - ... - **Instana Application Analyze API** — The API endpoints of this group expose our analyze functionality. It includes: **Grouped Metrics** Two group endpoints to retrieve metrics for traces and calls. **List of traces... - **Instana Application Catalog API** — The endpoints of this group retrieve all available resources to query application metrics. It includes: **Catalog for Application Tags** Showing a list of tags which is used for... - **Instana Application Metrics API** — The endpoints of this group retrieve the metrics for defined applications, discovered services and endpoints. ### Mandatory Parameters **metrics** A list of metric objects that ... - **Instana Application Resources API** — The API endpoints of this group provides insights into resources created and discovered. It includes: **Application Perspectives** Returns a list of predefined application persp... - **Instana Application Settings API** — The API endpoints of this group provides a way to create, read, update, delete (CRUD) for various configuration settings. It includes: **Application Perspectives Configuration**... - **Instana Application Topology API** — The Application Topology API from Instana — 1 operation(s) for application topology. - **Instana Audit Log API** — The Audit Log API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for audit log. - **Instana Authentication API** — The Authentication API from Instana — 4 operation(s) for authentication. - **Instana Business Monitoring API** — The Business Monitoring API from Instana — 5 operation(s) for business monitoring. - **Instana Custom Dashboards API** — 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 r... - **Instana Custom Entities API** — The Custom Entities API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for custom entities. - **Instana End User Monitoring API** — The End User Monitoring API from Instana — 1 operation(s) for end user monitoring. - **Instana Event Settings API** — The Event Settings API from Instana — 37 operation(s) for event settings. - **Instana Events API** — The Events API from Instana — 4 operation(s) for events. - **Instana Global Application Alert Configuration API** — The API endpoints of this group can be used to manage Global Application alert configurations. ## Parameters: All parameters and deprecated parameters are similar to Application... - **Instana Groups API** — Groups are used to permit individual users to perform specific actions and get visibility to an access scope. Each user can be assigned to multiple groups, every one coming with... - **Instana Health API** — The Health API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for health. - **Instana Host Agent API** — Endpoints of this group can be used to list and configure host agents. - **Instana Infrastructure Alert Configuration API** — The Infrastructure Alert Configuration API from Instana — 6 operation(s) for infrastructure alert configuration. - **Instana Infrastructure Analyze API** — This endpoint group exposes the functions that are used by the Instana **Analyze Infrastructure** dashboards. Two of the endpoints provide a [list of entity types](#operation/ge... - **Instana Infrastructure Catalog API** — The endpoints of this group retrieve all available resources to query infrastructure metrics. - **Instana Infrastructure Metrics API** — This endpoint retrieves the metrics for infrastructure components. ### Mandatory Parameters **plugin:** Plugins are entities' for which we collect metrics, for example : "Host",... - **Instana Infrastructure Resources API** — The Infrastructure Resources API from Instana — 5 operation(s) for infrastructure resources. - **Instana Infrastructure Topology API** — The Infrastructure Topology API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for infrastructure topology. - **Instana Log Alert Configuration API** — The Log Alert Configuration API from Instana — 6 operation(s) for log alert configuration. - **Instana Logging Analyze API** — The Logging Analyze API from Instana — 1 operation(s) for logging analyze. - **Instana Maintenance Configuration API** — ### Maintenance Windows Maintenance windows allow you to mute alerts. ### Types of Maintenance Configurations **One-Time**: Executed once at a fixed scheduled time, after which ... - **Instana Mobile App Analyze API** — The Mobile App Analyze API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for mobile app analyze. - **Instana Mobile App Catalog API** — The Mobile App Catalog API from Instana — 3 operation(s) for mobile app catalog. - **Instana Mobile App Configuration API** — The Mobile App Configuration API from Instana — 11 operation(s) for mobile app configuration. - **Instana Mobile App Metrics API** — The Mobile App Metrics API from Instana — 3 operation(s) for mobile app metrics. - **Instana Policies API** — The Policies API from Instana — 3 operation(s) for policies. - **Instana Releases API** — These APIs can be used to create, update, delete and fetch releases. ## Mandatory Parameters when sending a request: 1. **Create release** - `name` and `start` are mandatory par... - …and 22 more, listed in full on the page. ## Security (2) - **Instana Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC - **Instana Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published ## Plans (1) - **Instana Plans Pricing** ## Tags APM, Infrastructure, Monitoring, Observability --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/instana/). 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