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\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: Policies paths: /api/automation/policies: get: description: Returns all the automation policies filtered by the values in optional query parameters. When using personal access tokens, the user must have at least `Viewer` access for Automation and the automation policies returned are also filtered based on the access set in `Limited access` permission settings. operationId: getPolicies parameters: - description: Filter policies by the event or alert type that can trigger a policy. This is an optional parameter. Valid values are customEvent, builtinEvent, applicationSmartAlert, globalApplicationSmartAlert, websiteSmartAlert, infraSmartAlert, mobileAppSmartAlert, syntheticsSmartAlert, logSmartAlert, sloSmartAlert in: query name: triggerType schema: type: string - description: Trigger identifier. This is an optional parameter. in: query name: triggerId schema: type: string - description: Filter policies by policy execution type. This is an optional parameter. Valid values are automatic or manual in: query name: executionType schema: type: string - description: Filter policies by action ID. This is an optional parameter. in: query name: actionId schema: type: string responses: '200': content: application/json: example: - id: a14700b0-401b-47eb-a751-deda0035fde3 name: Policy for test description: Policy for test trigger: type: customEvent id: C3Ha8PffQHfJ0Hk6 name: Test Event typeConfigurations: - name: manual runnable: type: action id: d473c1b0-0740-4d08-95fe-31e5d0a9faff runConfiguration: actions: - action: id: d473c1b0-0740-4d08-95fe-31e5d0a9faff name: Hello World description: Simple script action for testing type: SCRIPT fields: - name: subtype description: script subtype encoding: base64 value: YmFzaA== secured: false - name: script_ssh description: script content encoding: base64 value: ZWNobyBoZWxsbyB3b3JsZA== secured: false - name: timeout description: timeout of the action execution in seconds encoding: ascii value: '' secured: false inputParameters: [] tags: - Test - idempotent createdAt: 1694442511.129923 modifiedAt: 1703191040.321448 schema: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Policy' description: Automation policies list filtered by the values in query parameters. '403': description: Insufficient permissions. '500': description: Failed to retrieve the automation policies. security: - ApiKeyAuth: - Default summary: Get all automation policies. tags: - Policies x-ibm-ahub-byok: true post: description: Creates a new automation policy. Policy creation requires `Configuration of automation policies` permission. operationId: addPolicy requestBody: content: application/json: example: name: builtin-action-custom-event trigger: name: test event type: customEvent id: 2X5r-Un18MIE59rE typeConfigurations: - name: manual runnable: type: action id: c5ba4453-0bc2-3c3e-bdbe-b3ce68239145 runConfiguration: actions: - action: id: c5ba4453-0bc2-3c3e-bdbe-b3ce68239145 schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Policy' required: true responses: '201': content: application/json: example: id: a14700b0-401b-47eb-a751-deda0035fde3 name: Policy for test description: Policy for test trigger: type: customEvent id: C3Ha8PffQHfJ0Hk6 name: Test Event typeConfigurations: - name: manual runnable: type: action id: d473c1b0-0740-4d08-95fe-31e5d0a9faff runConfiguration: actions: - action: id: d473c1b0-0740-4d08-95fe-31e5d0a9faff name: Hello World description: Simple script action for testing type: SCRIPT fields: - name: subtype description: script subtype encoding: base64 value: YmFzaA== secured: false - name: script_ssh description: script content encoding: base64 value: ZWNobyBoZWxsbyB3b3JsZA== secured: false - name: timeout description: timeout of the action execution in seconds encoding: ascii value: '' secured: false inputParameters: [] tags: - Test createdAt: 1694442511.129923 modifiedAt: 1703191040.321448 schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Policy' description: New policy created. '400': description: Bad request. '403': description: Insufficient permissions. '412': description: Invalid input value. '500': description: Internal Server Error. security: - ApiKeyAuth: - canConfigureAutomationPolicies summary: Create an automation policy. tags: - Policies x-ibm-ahub-byok: true /api/automation/policies/bulk: post: description: Creates a list of automation policies. Policy creation requires `Configuration of automation policies` permission. operationId: addPolicies requestBody: content: application/json: schema: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Policy' required: true responses: '201': content: application/json: schema: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Policy' description: Created. '400': description: Bad request. '403': description: Insufficient permissions. '412': description: Invalid input value. '500': description: Internal Server Error. security: - ApiKeyAuth: - canConfigureAutomationPolicies summary: Create automation policies. tags: - Policies x-ibm-ahub-byok: true /api/automation/policies/{id}: delete: description: Deletes an automation policy by identifier. Policy deletion requires `Configuration of automation policies` permission. When using personal tokens the automation policies deleted are based on the access set in `Limited access` permission settings. operationId: deletePolicy parameters: - description: Automation policy ID to delete example: a14700b0-401b-47eb-a751-deda0035fde3 in: path name: id required: true schema: type: string responses: '204': description: Automation policy successfully deleted '403': description: Insufficient permissions. '412': description: Automation policy does not exist security: - ApiKeyAuth: - canConfigureAutomationPolicies summary: Deletes an automation policy by identifier. tags: - Policies x-ibm-ahub-byok: true get: description: Returns the automation policy filtered by the ID in request parameter. When using personal access tokens, the user must have at least `Viewer` access for Automation and the automation policies returned are also filtered based on the access set in `Limited access` permission settings. operationId: getPolicyByID parameters: - description: Automation policy ID example: a14700b0-401b-47eb-a751-deda0035fde3 in: path name: id required: true schema: type: string responses: '200': content: application/json: example: id: a14700b0-401b-47eb-a751-deda0035fde3 name: Policy for test description: Policy for test trigger: type: customEvent id: C3Ha8PffQHfJ0Hk6 name: Test Event typeConfigurations: - name: manual runnable: type: action id: d473c1b0-0740-4d08-95fe-31e5d0a9faff runConfiguration: actions: - action: id: d473c1b0-0740-4d08-95fe-31e5d0a9faff name: Hello World description: Simple script action for testing type: SCRIPT fields: - name: subtype description: script subtype encoding: base64 value: YmFzaA== secured: false - name: script_ssh description: script content encoding: base64 value: ZWNobyBoZWxsbyB3b3JsZA== secured: false - name: timeout description: timeout of the action execution in seconds encoding: ascii value: '' secured: false inputParameters: [] tags: - Test createdAt: 1694442511.129923 modifiedAt: 1703191040.321448 schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Policy' description: Automation policy filtered by the ID in request parameter. '403': description: Insufficient permissions. '404': description: Automation policy not found. security: - ApiKeyAuth: - Default summary: Get an automation policy by ID. tags: - Policies x-ibm-ahub-byok: true put: description: Updates an automation policy by identifier. Policy updates requires `Configuration of automation policies` permission. When using personal tokens the automation policies updated are based on the access set in `Limited access` permission settings. operationId: updatePolicy parameters: - in: path name: id required: true schema: type: string requestBody: content: application/json: example: name: builtin-action-custom-event trigger: name: test event type: customEvent id: 2X5r-Un18MIE59rE typeConfigurations: - name: manual runnable: type: action id: c5ba4453-0bc2-3c3e-bdbe-b3ce68239145 runConfiguration: actions: - action: id: c5ba4453-0bc2-3c3e-bdbe-b3ce68239145 schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Policy' required: true responses: '200': content: application/json: example: id: a14700b0-401b-47eb-a751-deda0035fde3 name: Policy for test description: Policy for test trigger: type: customEvent id: C3Ha8PffQHfJ0Hk6 name: Test Event typeConfigurations: - name: manual runnable: type: action id: d473c1b0-0740-4d08-95fe-31e5d0a9faff runConfiguration: actions: - action: id: d473c1b0-0740-4d08-95fe-31e5d0a9faff name: Hello World description: Simple script action for testing type: SCRIPT fields: - name: subtype description: script subtype encoding: base64 value: YmFzaA== secured: false - name: script_ssh description: script content encoding: base64 value: ZWNobyBoZWxsbyB3b3JsZA== secured: false - name: timeout description: timeout of the action execution in seconds encoding: ascii value: '' secured: false inputParameters: [] tags: - Test createdAt: 1694442511.129923 modifiedAt: 1703191040.321448 schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Policy' description: Automation policy successfully updated. '403': description: Insufficient permissions. '412': description: Invalid input value. '500': description: Server Error. security: - ApiKeyAuth: - canConfigureAutomationPolicies summary: Updates an automation policy by identifier. tags: - Policies x-ibm-ahub-byok: true components: schemas: RunConfiguration: type: object description: Action run configuration. properties: actions: type: array description: List of action configurations. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ActionConfiguration' required: - actions ParameterValue: type: object description: List of action input parameters. properties: name: type: string description: Parameter name. value: type: string description: Parameter value. required: - name - value Condition: type: object description: This applies to only `automatic` policy type. A Dynamic Focus Query that selects a list of entities on which the policy is run. properties: query: type: string description: Dynamic Focus Query string that selects a list of entities on which the policy is run. MetaData: type: object description: Action metadata. properties: ai: type: array description: List of metadata for AI originated actions. items: type: object additionalProperties: type: object description: List of metadata for AI originated actions. description: List of metadata for AI originated actions. aiOriginated: type: boolean description: AI originated action flag. Value is `true` if action is AI generated `false` otherwise. builtIn: type: boolean description: Built-in out of the box action flag. Value is `true` if built-in action `false` otherwise. readOnly: type: boolean description: Read only action flag. Value is `true` if read only `false` otherwise. sensorImported: type: boolean description: Sensor imported action flag. Value is `true` if action is imported from sensor `false` otherwise. PolicyRunnable: type: object description: Runnable associated with the policy. It can be a `workflow` or `action`. Currently only supports `action`. properties: id: type: string description: Action identifier. runConfiguration: $ref: '#/components/schemas/RunConfiguration' type: type: string description: Type of runnable. Supported value is `action`. enum: - action - workflow required: - id - runConfiguration - type TypeConfiguration: type: object description: List of configurations that contains the list of actions to run and the mode (automatic or manual) in which the policy is run. properties: condition: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Condition' name: type: string description: The policy type determines how a policy is run. Value must be one of the enum values. Value `manual` means the policy is run manually when an event is raised. Value `automatic` means policy is run automatically when an event is raised. enum: - automatic - manual runnable: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PolicyRunnable' required: - name - runnable PolicyScheduling: type: object description: Scheduling information for a scheduled policy. properties: recurrentRule: type: string description: 'Recurrent Rule defines how the policy recurs, using iCalendar RRULE format (e.g., `FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=1`).It supports fields like FREQ, INTERVAL, BYDAY. Refer to RFC 5545: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545#section-3.3.10' startTime: type: string format: date-time description: The time to run the policy action in milliseconds since epoch (UTC) (e.g., `1706713140000`). required: - startTime ActionConfiguration: type: object description: List of action configurations. properties: action: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Action' agentId: type: string description: Identifier of the agent host on which to run the action. inputParameterValues: type: array description: List of action input parameters. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ParameterValue' required: - action Action: type: object description: Automation action definition. When this is used in policy creation request, only `id` should be specified. properties: createdAt: type: string format: date-time description: Action created time. description: type: string description: Action description. maxLength: 512 minLength: 0 fields: type: array description: List of fields that describe an action. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Field' id: type: string description: Action identifier. maxLength: 128 minLength: 1 inputParameters: type: array description: List of inputs to the action. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Parameter' metadata: $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetaData' modifiedAt: type: string format: date-time description: Action modified time. name: type: string description: Action name. maxLength: 128 minLength: 1 tags: type: array description: List of tags added to the action. items: type: string description: List of tags added to the action. type: type: string description: 'Action type can be one of the following values: SCRIPT, HTTP, ANSIBLE, EXTERNAL, GITHUB, GITLAB, JIRA, MANUAL, DOC_LINK' enum: - SCRIPT - HTTP - ANSIBLE - EXTERNAL - GITHUB - GITLAB - JIRA - MANUAL - DOC_LINK maxLength: 128 minLength: 0 required: - createdAt - id - modifiedAt - name - type Parameter: type: object description: List of inputs to the action. properties: description: type: string description: Parameter description. hidden: type: boolean description: Is parameter hidden or not. label: type: string description: Parameter label. name: type: string description: Parameter name. required: type: boolean description: Is parameter required or not. secured: type: boolean description: Is parameter secured or not. type: type: string description: Parameter type. Valid values are `static`, `dynamic`, or `vault`. Default value is `static` value: type: string description: Parameter value. required: - label - name - type Field: type: object description: List of fields that describe an action. properties: description: type: string encoding: type: string name: type: string secured: type: boolean value: type: string required: - encoding - name - value Policy: type: object properties: description: type: string description: Policy description. maxLength: 512 minLength: 0 id: type: string description: Policy identifier. maxLength: 128 minLength: 1 readOnly: true name: type: string description: Policy name. maxLength: 128 minLength: 1 tags: type: array description: A list of policy tags. items: type: string description: A list of policy tags. trigger: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Trigger' typeConfigurations: type: array description: List of configurations that contains the list of actions to run and the mode (automatic or manual) in which the policy is run. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TypeConfiguration' required: - id - name - trigger - typeConfigurations Trigger: type: object description: The trigger is the Instana event or Smart Alert that defines the initial conditions that must be met for the policy to apply on the actions in `typeConfiguration`. properties: description: type: string description: A description for the trigger. id: type: string description: Trigger (Instana event or Smart Alert) identifier. name: type: string description: A name of the trigger (name of Instana event or Smart Alert). scheduling: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PolicyScheduling' type: type: string description: Instana event type, Smart Alert type, or 'schedule'. The type must be one of the enum values. enum: - customEvent - builtinEvent - applicationSmartAlert - globalApplicationSmartAlert - websiteSmartAlert - infraSmartAlert - mobileAppSmartAlert - syntheticsSmartAlert - logSmartAlert - sloSmartAlert - schedule required: - type 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