Instana
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.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Instana the way a machine reads it — 68 machine-readable artifacts across 62 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Instana scores 35.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 24/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Instana
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Instana. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 62
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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...
Instana Roles API
The Roles API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for roles.
Instana Service Levels Alert Configuration API
The Service Levels Alert Configuration API from Instana — 6 operation(s) for service levels alert configuration.
Instana Service Levels Objective(SLO) Configurations API
The Service Levels Objective(SLO) Configurations API from Instana — 3 operation(s) for service levels objective(slo) configurations.
Instana Service Levels Objective(SLO) Report API
The Service Levels Objective(SLO) Report API from Instana — 1 operation(s) for service levels objective(slo) report.
Instana Session Settings API
The Session Settings API from Instana — 1 operation(s) for session settings.
Instana SLI Report API
The SLI Report API from Instana — 1 operation(s) for sli report.
Instana SLI Settings API
## Deprecated Parameters **tagFilters** The list of tag filters. It is replaced by **tagFilterExpression**
Instana SLO Correction Configurations API
The SLO Correction Configurations API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for slo correction configurations.
Instana SLO Correction Windows API
The SLO Correction Windows API from Instana — 1 operation(s) for slo correction windows.
Instana Synthetic Alert Configuration API
The API endpoints of this group can be used to manage alert configurations for Synthetic Monitoring. ## Parameters: - **id:** ID of the alert configuration. - **name:** Name for...
Instana Synthetic Calls API
The API endpoints of this group can fetch, update and delete the synthetic endpoint configuration rules. **Note:** There are some following restrictions to use `matchSpecificati...
Instana Synthetic Catalog API
The Synthetic Catalog API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for synthetic catalog.
Instana Synthetic Metrics API
The endpoints of this group retrieve metrics for Synthetic test results. ### Mandatory Parameters **metrics** A list of metric objects that define which metric should be returne...
Instana Synthetic Settings API
The API endpoints of this group can be used to manage Synthetic Locations, Synthetic Tests and Synthetic Credentials. ## Synthetic Location Properties: - **id** Unique identifie...
Instana Synthetic Test Playback Results API
The endpoints of this group retrieve the results for defined Synthetic tests. **Note on names in TagFilter/TagFilterExpression**: From R243, the name used in a TagFilter or a Ta...
Instana Teams API
The Teams API from Instana — 2 operation(s) for teams.
Instana Usage API
The Usage API from Instana — 5 operation(s) for usage.
Instana User API
The User API from Instana — 7 operation(s) for user.
Instana Website Analyze API
The following four endpoints expose our analyze functionality. ## Mandatory Parameters : **type** **group (only for group Endpoints)** It is mandatory to select a tag by which t...
Instana Website Catalog API
The endpoints of this group retrieve all available resources to query website metrics.
Instana Website Configuration API
The Website Configuration API from Instana — 10 operation(s) for website configuration.
Instana Website Metrics API
The Website Metrics API from Instana — 3 operation(s) for website metrics.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Instana REST API documentation
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Instana Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Instana Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Instana — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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