What must be in place for an Instana cloud service agent to collect data from a provider's managed services?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
You need credentials or a role with permission to read the provider's monitoring data. This is an API integration, so it needs API permissions. Under-scoped credentials show up as services that are simply missing rather than as an obvious error.
Full Explanation
The correct choice is the option requiring credentials or a role in the cloud account with permission to read the provider's monitoring data for the targeted services. Cloud service agents authenticate to the provider and query its monitoring APIs, so they need read permissions scoped to the services being monitored. Missing or under-scoped permissions typically produce partial visibility rather than a loud failure.
The option requiring a host agent installed inside each managed service instance is incorrect because a host agent cannot be installed in a managed service, which is why this agent type exists.
The option requiring access to the provider's billing console only is incorrect because billing access does not confer permission to read operational metrics.
The option saying nothing beyond enabling the agent is required, since managed services are public by default, is incorrect because provider monitoring data is not publicly readable; explicit authorisation is always required.
For the exam, associate cloud service agents with cloud account permissions as a prerequisite, not an optional extra.