Virtana (Virtual Instruments)
Virtana (formerly Virtual Instruments) is an AI-powered hybrid infrastructure observability company whose platform monitors and optimizes performance, cost, and risk across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments. The platform spans Infrastructure Observability, Container Observability, Application and Service Observability, AI Factory (GPU/AI workload) Observability, Storage Load Testing, and Cloud Cost Management. Virtana exposes public developer surfaces — the Global View APIs (alerts, external alert ingestion, on-prem storage dashboards), the Infrastructure Observability Public REST API (/api/sdk/p/2), and a Cloud Cost Management API — all secured with OAuth2 client-credentials bearer tokens, plus an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents live access to metric, alert, inventory, relationship, and schema data over streaming HTTP.
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 Virtana (Virtual Instruments) the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — Virtana (Virtual Instruments) scores 44.9/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 35/100 (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 Virtana (Virtual Instruments)
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Virtana (Virtual Instruments). 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 3
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.
Virtana Global View API
Global View APIs for alerts, external alert ingestion, and on-prem storage dashboards. Function-based JSON POST bodies over a Solr-style query engine, served from the Virtana cl...
Virtana Infrastructure Observability Public API
Versioned REST API (/api/sdk/p/2/...) with ~11 top-level endpoints (inventory, schema, and more). OpenAPI/Swagger is downloadable from the IO appliance (releases 7.1.0+). Per-en...
Virtana Cloud Cost Management API
Cloud Cost Management (CCM) APIs exposing the cost/usage slicing available in the Virtana Platform UI for integration into user dashboards, including filter-by options on API ca...
MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
virtual-instruments-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Virtual Instruments Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 3
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 Virtana (Virtual Instruments) — 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.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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