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Vitaly Bondarenko posted Fri July 25, 2025 07:16 AM

Hello,

I'm using REST API for Instana, in particular Instana API docs . The objects returned contain _links section with useful URLs. For Application besides the regular "self" entry there is a "services" entry and URL format for it does not match the format described for /applications/services endpoints. Here is an example:

'https://tenant.instana.io/api/application-monitoring/applications;id=UZFZHl-SRIy3hpG1WnEfKg/services?to=1753440657000&windowSize=86400000'

the ;id= part of the URL contains the application ID for which the services will be extracted.

Similar urls are returned in sublevels as well, for example for endpoints of a service of an application, where two IDs are embedded into the URL.

Is this API described anywhere? 

Also, I have not seen a description the "_links" section in responses, is this part intentionally undocumented?

Regards,

Vitay