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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 `matchSpecification` parameter for Synthetic endpoint configuration: 1. `matchSpecification.type` should be `LEAF`.2. `matchSpecification.key` should be always be `endpoint.name`.3. `matchSpecification.operator` should be among the following options: `EQUALS`, `CONTAINS`, `STARTS_WITH`, `ENDS_WITH`, `NOT_STARTS_WITH`, `NOT_ENDS_WITH`.4. `matchSpecification.entity` should be `DESTINATION` as health check endpoint is considered as a destination endpoint.

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

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

This API exposes 3 operations across 1 path, and defines 4 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 1 paths 4 schemas 1 DELETE1 GET1 PUT

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 Synthetic Calls 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 1 path, the API surfaces 3 operations — 1 DELETE, 1 GET, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Synthetic Calls 3

The API endpoints of this group can fetch, update and delete the synthetic endpoint configuration rules. Note: There are some following restrictions to use matchSpecification para…

DELETE
/api/settings/synthetic-calls
Delete synthetic call configurations
deleteSyntheticCall → default
GET
/api/settings/synthetic-calls
Synthetic call configurations
getSyntheticCalls → 200
PUT
/api/settings/synthetic-calls
Update synthetic call configurations
updateSyntheticCall body → 200401403

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SyntheticCallRule (4 properties), SyntheticCallWithDefaultsConfig (3 properties), SyntheticCallConfig (2 properties), MatchExpressionDTO (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

MatchExpressionDTO
object
Specify the expression to match, For example, endpoint.name contains health.
1 property 1 required
SyntheticCallConfig
object
2 properties 1 required
SyntheticCallRule
object
The list of custom rules for synthetic endpoints defined by the user.
4 properties 2 required
SyntheticCallWithDefaultsConfig
object
3 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

instana-synthetic-calls-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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