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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 building a query in various use cases within Instana, for example, subset of tags which are available for grouping in traces in Unbounded Analytics for Traces.**Catalog for metrics**Showing a list of metrics that are available for aggregations. For example, Call count can have 2 types of aggrgations: sum and per second.

Instana Application Catalog API is one of 62 APIs that Instana publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Application Catalog. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 1.307.1417.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://{unit}-{tenant}.instana.io, https://{domain}.

3 operations 3 paths 5 schemas 3 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
1.307.1417
Servers
https://{unit}-{tenant}.instana.io
https://{domain}
Authentication
API Key
Contact
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Instana Application Catalog API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as authorization (ApiKeyAuth).

  • ApiKeyAuth — Example bash curl --request GET \ --url https://test-instana.instana.io/api/application-monitoring/catalog/metrics \ --header 'authorization: apiToken xxxxxxxx…

Paths & Operations 3

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Application Catalog 3

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 build…

GET
/api/application-monitoring/catalog
Get application tag catalog
getApplicationTagCatalog 3 params → 200
GET
/api/application-monitoring/catalog/metrics
Get Metric catalog
getApplicationCatalogMetrics → 200
GET
/api/application-monitoring/catalog/tagsdeprecated
Get application tags
getApplicationTags 3 params → 200

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Tag (9 properties), TagTreeLevel (7 properties), MetricDescription (6 properties), TagTreeNode (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

MetricDescription
object
6 properties 4 required
TagCatalog
object
2 properties 2 required
Tag
object
List of queryable tags available in a tagTree. Eg: call.erroneous. Consider these tags as attributes of a tagTree. Eg: Call tagTree has have Erroneous, Call na…
9 properties 2 required
TagTreeNode
object
Children tags of tagTree
3 properties
TagTreeLevel
object
The name of the tag dataset (tagTree) which can contain one or more tags as its attributes or children. Eg: Call. Consider this as the root of the tree where i…
7 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

instana-application-catalog-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Instana publishes across the network.

Instana Action Catalog API
Instana Action History API
Instana AI Management API
Instana Apdex Report API
Instana Apdex Settings API
Instana API Token API
Instana Application Alert Configuration API
Instana Application Analyze API
Instana Application Metrics API
Instana Application Resources API
Instana Application Settings API
Instana Application Topology API