Domain 4: Integration

IBM Certified Instana Observability v1.0.277 Administrator - Professional · 42 questions

• An operations team wants critical Instana alerts to automatically create incidents in PagerDuty with proper severity mapping. After navigating to Instana's settings, what must be configured to enable this native integration?
• Your organization uses ServiceNow for ITSM. When Instana detects a degraded service, you need an incident automatically created in ServiceNow with category set to 'Application' and urgency set to 'High.' Which configuration approach correctly achieves this?
• Your security team's incident platform is not natively supported by Instana. They require alert payloads in a specific JSON format that includes alert name, severity level, and a static custom tag 'team:security.' What should you configure in Instana to meet this requirement?
• A site reliability team uses OpsGenie for on-call management. They need Instana alerts to create OpsGenie alerts with the correct team responder assignment. After choosing OpsGenie as the Alert Channel type in Instana, what is the critical piece of information required to complete the integration?
• An administrator wants Instana to display AWS CloudWatch metrics alongside application performance data for EC2 instances in the same Instana infrastructure view. What is the prerequisite for enabling this integration?
• An administrator needs Instana to ingest Azure Monitor metrics for Azure SQL Database and correlate them with distributed application traces. Which configuration is required in Instana's infrastructure settings?
• A platform team monitoring Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud SQL wants those service metrics visible in Instana alongside their GKE workloads. What must be configured in Instana to enable Google Cloud metric ingestion?
• After deploying Instana host agents as a DaemonSet on a Kubernetes cluster, pod-level metrics and entity relationships are not appearing in the Instana infrastructure map even though agent pods are running. What is the most likely root cause?
• When deploying Instana host agents on Red Hat OpenShift 4.x, the DaemonSet pods fail to start with 'unable to validate against any security context constraint' errors. The agent image and configuration.yaml are verified correct. What is the OpenShift-specific step required to resolve this?
• A DevOps team wants Jenkins build and deployment events to appear as change markers on Instana's timeline, enabling engineers to visually correlate deployments with application performance degradations. Which approach enables this?
• A team using GitHub Actions for deployments wants Instana to receive a deployment notification each time a production workflow completes successfully. No native GitHub Actions connector exists in Instana. What is the recommended integration method?
• An organization wants application logs captured by Instana agents to be forwarded to Splunk for long-term retention and SIEM analysis without installing additional collectors on monitored hosts. What is the supported Instana integration approach?
• An administrator wants to monitor availability and response time of an external HTTPS API endpoint from multiple geographic locations. After enabling synthetic monitoring in the Instana backend settings, what must be configured next?
• A platform team needs to programmatically retrieve all currently open Instana alert events and feed them into a custom executive reporting dashboard that refreshes hourly. Which approach correctly uses Instana's APIs to satisfy this requirement?
• 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?
• An administrator needs Instana to monitor IBM MQ queue managers for queue depth, message throughput, and channel status. The Instana host agent is installed and running on the MQ server. What additional configuration step is required before MQ metrics appear in Instana?
• An organisation already scrapes application metrics with Prometheus and now wants them alongside Instana's own data. What is the appropriate approach?
• An organisation wants alerts to reach the teams responsible for each service. What should the alert channel configuration achieve?
• Which approach is appropriate for automating recurring Instana reporting and configuration tasks?
• When is integrating Instana with Grafana the appropriate choice?
• Why can Grafana panel visibility not be treated as an access-control policy?
• Why can Prometheus not simply take the place of Instana's tracing?
• An alert channel was configured but notifications never arrive at the target system. What should be checked first?
• Why is screen-scraping Instana dashboards a poor foundation for automation?
• A team reports that a metric is missing and proposes building a Grafana dashboard to find it. What is the flaw in this plan?
• Why should label planning precede a large Prometheus metrics import?
• Why is routing every alert to one shared mailbox a poor design?
• Why should an automation script hold its own scoped API token rather than use an administrator's interactive session?
• What does the Grafana integration actually provide?
• Which situation most clearly justifies using Instana's Prometheus integration?
• What makes an alert notification actionable for the receiving team?
• Which task is a good candidate for the Instana REST API rather than manual work?
• What is the main argument for surfacing Instana data in an existing Grafana dashboard rather than requiring teams to switch tools?
• What is the practical consequence of importing Prometheus metrics that carry a label with unbounded values, such as a request identifier?
• How do Prometheus metrics and Instana's tracing relate once the integration is in place?
• Why can dashboard screenshots not serve as an alert transport?
• What is the main risk of using the Instana REST API without securing its tokens?
• Which capability is retained by Instana rather than transferred to Grafana when the integration is in place?
• Which statement best summarises how Prometheus metrics should be brought into Instana?
• Which statement best summarises alert channel integration practice?
• Which statement best summarises the correct use of the Instana REST API?
• Which statement best summarises the role of the Grafana integration?