In today's DevOps reality, observability isn't optional—it's foundational. Between Kubernetes, microservices, CI/CD, and multicloud deployments, visibility isn't just about uptime; it's about engineering velocity, cost control, and collaboration across personas. That's where Instana comes in. It's more than just a monitoring tool—it's a real-time observability platform that speaks the language of DevOps, SRE, platform, and FinOps teams alike. That’s where Instana’s APIs and integrations shine. With deep integrations into tools like IBM Turbonomic, IBM Kubecost, and IBM Concert, IBM Instana becomes part of a broader, smarter ecosystem—a pluggable, single pane of glass for performance, cost, governance, and health.

Built for DevOps: API-First Observability

Instana, IBM’s enterprise observability platform, is designed for real-time, automated monitoring across hybrid environments. It auto-discovers your stack, instruments your services, and begins collecting real-time metrics, traces, logs, and events with zero code changes.

And now, with the New Instana API documentation , it’s even easier to integrate Instana into your DevOps workflows. The documentation includes ready-to-use code snippets in 8 languages, ability to try out Instana APIs from the browser, making automation and integration faster than ever.

What You Can Do with Instana APIs

Instana’s REST APIs are intuitive, reliable, and automation-ready:

• Metrics API – Pull real-time or historical metrics for Applications, services, containers, and other infrastructure entities.
• Events API – Push/pull deployments, incidents, or custom events.
• Tracing API – Send or retrieve distributed trace data.
• Configuration API – Automate config creation, dashboards, alert rules, and tagging.
• Health API – Monitor Instana agent and backend status.

These APIs are language-agnostic (cURL, Python, Node.js, etc.), modular, and well-documented—so you can plug in and go.

Real-World Use Cases

Here’s how some of the DevOps teams are using Instana APIs today:

• CI/CD Integration: Push deployment markers from Jenkins or GitLab to correlate code changes with latency or error spikes.
• Alert Routing: Send alerts to Slack, PagerDuty, or custom tools using webhooks.
• Custom Dashboards: Build FinOps or leadership views using metrics APIs.
• Governance & Auditing: Extract alert rules and tagging policies for compliance.
• Custom Tracing: Send spans from edge, mobile, or non-standard environments.

Out-of-the-Box Integrations

Instana supports 350+ native integrations, including:

☁️ AWS, Azure, GCP | 🐳 Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift
💻 Java, Node.js, Python, Go, .NET | 📦 MongoDB, Kafka, Redis
🔧 Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, ArgoCD

Just deploy the agent—Instana auto-discovers everything.

Part of the IBM Observability Stack

Instana integrates seamlessly with IBM’s ecosystem:

• IBM Turbonomic: Use Instana metrics for automated resource optimization.
• IBM Kubecost: Tie performance to Kubernetes costs for FinOps insights.
• IBM Concert: Correlate application health with application risk and resilience.

Together, they form a modular, developer-friendly observability platform.

In short: Observability should be connected, automated, and actionable. With Instana’s APIs, integrating observability into your DevOps toolchain has never been easier.

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