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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Self Hosted
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 18, 2025

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Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention.


Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https://instana.github.io/openapi/ )


The problem with this is that: to be able to use the Instana REST API you need an API Token. And an API Token can currently only be generated manually in the Instana UI. You can create an API Token with the Instana REST API also, but for using the REST API you already need to have an API Token - which you do not have during initial setup and configuration of the environment.


We raise request to add functionality to provide a way to get an API Token to be able to automate/configure Instana without interruption (manually generating an API Token in the UI to proceed), e.g. by following procedures:

  • When configuring tenant unit (where you also specify initialAdminUser/Pass) - as a result of this an initial API Token (with Owner permissions like initialAdminUser) could be generated by the Instana Operator which expires after some hours/days. The token could be exposed by Instana Operator after successfull creation of Unit e.g. via a k8s secret in units namespace.

  • Expose/Document a way to use Instana internal admin to create an API Token, so use admin API user from "instana-internal" secret to call internal api generate a API Token for initialAdminUser with Owner permissions (e.g. something similar like https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=edition-troubleshooting#deactivating-sso-provider-configurations-ldapsamloidc)

  • Add an REST API with which you can generate a short lived API Token by providing username/password. With that initialAdminUser/Pass could be used to generate a API Token and start from there

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Feb 25, 2025

    As per our internal discussions, this is not a supported scenario and REST API usage should be started by the user logging in and creating an approriate API token.

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