An operations team uses both IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic. They want Turbonomic's resource optimization engine to factor in application response time data from Instana when generating VM and container right-sizing recommendations. How is this integration configured?

IBM Turbonomic integrates with Instana by treating Instana as a data source target. In Turbonomic's target management interface, administrators add a new Instana target specifying the Instana backend REST API URL and a valid API token. Turbonomic then queries Instana's APIs to retrieve application response time and transaction rate metrics, improving the accuracy of resource scaling and right-sizing recommendations for the application's infrastructure. The correct answer is 'Add Instana as a target in Turbonomic's target configuration panel, providing the Instana backend URL and a valid Instana API token'. The incorrect options — 'Install collocated Instana and Turbonomic agents on each host with a shared configuration file enabling metric exchange between the two agents', 'Use IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps as an intermediary layer to translate and route data between the Instana and Turbonomic APIs', 'Export Instana performance metrics to a shared InfluxDB time series database that Turbonomic reads via its database connector' — are wrong because they do not align with IBM Instana's architecture or recommended practices for this scenario. Understanding this concept is essential for the Domain 4: Integration domain of the IBM Instana Observability certification.