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Instana MCP server allows you to access real-time metrics, traces, and alerts, enabling seamless conversational observability directly within the developer workflow.
Overview
The IBM Instana Observability MCP Server brings conversational observability to developers building on AWS. This listing allows you to deploy the Instana MCP Server into your AWS or local environment. Powered by the open Model Context Protocol (MCP), this server exposes more than 100 Instana tools as AI-accessible endpoints so assistants like Amazon Q Developer CLI and Kiro can query Instana using natural language. Instead of navigating dashboards or writing custom REST calls, developers can simply ask questions like:
- Show me three applications with their health status?
- What were the Kubernetes events in the last three hours?
- Which applications have at least one AWS EC2 instance associated with them? Behind the scenes, the Instana MCP Server translates these prompts into precise Instana API calls, validates parameters, handles pagination, and returns structured responses that AI agents can explain and summarize. From there, developers and SREs can explore Instana observability data directly from their terminal or IDE. Licensing and requirements:
- The MCP Server itself is free to deploy from AWS Marketplace.
- An active Instana subscription (SaaS or Self-Hosted) is required to access data.
- New users can start with an Instana free trial or Instana Pay-As-You-Go offering on AWS Marketplace at https://ibm.biz/aws_marketplace-instana_paygoÂ
Highlights
- Rich library of tools for full-stack observability: The Instana MCP Server exposes more than 100 purpose-built tools that map directly to Instana APIs - including application metrics, endpoint performance, infrastructure hosts, Kubernetes events, alerts, dependencies, snapshots, and configuration objects - giving AI assistants full coverage across applications, services, and infrastructure layers.
- Flexible and powerful filtering for precise queries: Tools support advanced filtering options such as time ranges, tags, service names, application IDs, metric thresholds, and entity-specific identifiers, allowing AI agents to retrieve highly targeted datasets (e.g.,Show me endpoints with latency > 500ms in the last hour? or Show me hosts tagged production running on EC2?).
- Built for IDEs and developer CLIs: The Instana MCP Server integrates seamlessly with agentic IDEs and developer command-line assistants, enabling tools like AI coding copilots, chat-based IDE extensions, and intelligent CLIs to access observability data from Instana through natural-language queries - making metrics, traces, alerts, and infrastructure insights available directly where developers write and debug code.
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IBM Instana MCP Server container image
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- Amazon EKS
- Amazon ECS
- Amazon EKS Anywhere
- Amazon ECS Anywhere
Container image
Containers are lightweight, portable execution environments that wrap server application software in a filesystem that includes everything it needs to run. Container applications run on supported container runtimes and orchestration services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Both eliminate the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software by managing and scheduling containers on a scalable cluster of virtual machines.
Version release notes
Initial release of the IBM Instana MCP server on the AWS Marketplace
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Usage instructions
- Deploy the container image in your AWS environment (EKS, ECS, EC2, or locally) using Docker.
- Connect your AI developer assistants or agentic IDEs to the servers MCP endpoint.
- Provide Instana API credentials for secure authentication.
- Use natural-language queries from your CLI or IDE to retrieve Instana metrics, traces, alerts, and infrastructure data. Refer to the full documentation for configuration examples and available tools: Instana MCP Server Documentation: ibm.biz/instana_mcp_server_documentation As an open-source project, the Instana MCP Server can be customized and extended to support additional workflows and internal developer tools. GitHub Repository: https://github.com/instana/mcp-instanaÂ
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