IBM Instana

Connection Requirements

1 - Domain

The hostname of your Instana instance without the protocol prefix(http/https). For cloud tenants enter in the format {unit}-{tenant}.instana.io (e.g. mycompany-prod.instana.io). For self-hosted deployments enter your internal domain (e.g. instana.company.com).

2 - API Token

To generate an API token, complete the following steps:

1. Log on to your Instana account.

2. From the navigation menu, click Settings → Security & Access → API Tokens.

3. Click New API Token.

4. Enter a name for your token to identify it later.

5. Select the appropriate permissions for the token.

6. Click Create.

3 - Is Secure

Choose this if your connection is going to be over HTTPS (optional, default: True).

4 - Fetch Users

Fetch user data (optional, default: True).

5 - Thread Count

This adapter works in a multi threaded manner. This field represents the number of parallel threads that is going to be constructed for sending API requests (default: 32, min: 1, max: 32).

6 - Sleep Time

Delay in seconds between thread batches (default: 0). Increase if encountering rate limit errors.

7 - Host Size

Maximum number of host snapshots to retrieve in a single request (default: 1000, min: 100). Increase if your environment has more hosts than the default limit. The Instana API does not document a maximum value for this parameter — if you experience errors with higher values, reduce it until the connection succeeds.

8 - Proxy

Proxy URL (optional).

9 - Timeout

The amount of time (in seconds) to wait for API responses. (default: 30)

Attention

Please perform a connection test to ensure there is a valid connection to the IBM Instana host. When the discovery operation is finalized you will be able to see the details on Assets page.