IBM Instana

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Automated, real-time full stack observability

About IBM Instana

IBM Instana democratizes observability by providing a solution that all application stakeholders, whether working in Operations, Development, QA or on the business side, can use to get the performance data they want with the application and infrastructure context they need. Purpose-built for cloud-native systems (while also supporting legacy architectures), Instana automatically and continuously provides high fidelity data —1-second granularity metrics and an end-to-end trace of every request with zero sampling — along with the context of all inter-dependencies (application, infrastructure, physical, virtual, cloud, users, etc.)

IBM Instana allows users to never miss a problem, no matter how small – and gives them all the data they need to find and fix problems quickly. Instana even points to the exact component and moment when the component triggered service issues,

With immediate feedback, Instana helps organizations achieve more frequent deployments and ensures issues are identified before they impact end users. Configurable unique Smart Alerts further enable proactive performance management by automatically learning about standard behaviors from not just the applications, but also from operations, reducing active alerts being generated for expected updates/outages – while also connecting all information to figure out if a problem is just beginning.


Key benefits of IBM Instana

Accelerate Innovation: Improve the overall speed and flow of DevOps pipelines through automation to better understand your environment and speed up innovation.

AI-powered Remediation: Mitigate user impact by predicting and resolving issues proactively with AI-powered solutions for enhanced accuracy and efficiency.

Find and fix problems fast: Reduce your MTTD and MTTR with real-time observability. Instana automates every aspect of APM—discovery, dependency mapping, monitoring, tracing, root cause analysis and feedback—without sampling or blind spots while freeing up your DevOps teams to focus on core tasks.

Optimize Application Performance: Optimize performance proactively with contextual insights from Instana's Dynamic Graph, which records and models relationships between all application components in real time. With Instana's Context Guide, any user can diagnose issues and determine impact.

Take Action with SmartAlerts: Prevent issues with alerts powered by AI and machine learning. Instana provides an in-depth incident report that correlates all corresponding events using the Dynamic Graph. The resulting single alert contains an effect report with details to enable rapid incident resolution.

Easy to Use: Provide teams across your organization with an easy-to-use APM platform that supports all stakeholders, not just APM power users. Instana gives anyone across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps and development the data they want with the context they need.

Simple, Transparent Pricing: All the Value. Flat-rate pricing. No surprise fees with IBM Instana.


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IBM Instana Software - Instana automatically discovers and maps all services, ingests observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process and maps all application dependencies.
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best monitoring tool for Kubernetes platform

Reviewed on 2023/10/11

Pros

Overall view of erroneous call rate and latency is very useful to find performance issues. We can able to find out exact error calls like 5XX and 4XX calls.

Cons

Request parameter is not implemented and only available based on endpoints

Mike
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

A serious New Relic competitor with some work

Reviewed on 2019/01/25

Pros

Instana looks great on the outside: features, pricing, etc. and it is, if you can implement it.

Cons

We found Instana has issues running in Docker environments, and their integration docs for APM were less than intuitive.

Michele
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

IBM Instana is your friend

Reviewed on 2024/09/27

My overall experience with IBM Instana is coool. All the tracing services are well presented and...

My overall experience with IBM Instana is coool. All the tracing services are well presented and readable.

Pros

IBM Instana is really easy to use. Tracing the services, the calls and takes the time durations.

Cons

I think the alert could be more understandable.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Captures APM in real time

Reviewed on 2019/05/03

Pros

Captures application performance in real time. Great to capture micro service requests at a very affordable pricing

Cons

So far, nothing bad, we are still testing it to see how it works

Rosa
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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Monitoraggio approfondito dello stato della rete

Reviewed on 2023/09/26

Monitori i server, le transazione avvenute sul sito, l’intera infrastruttura dello stesso e il suo...

Monitori i server, le transazione avvenute sul sito, l’intera infrastruttura dello stesso e il suo stato di salute. Monitora anche il mainframe, CPU, RAM e storage per identificare problemi in modo più veloce e di dettaglio. Questo monitoraggio profondo consente di prevenire i problemi, anticipando gli interventi prima che si verifichino. Le funzionalità di allarme sono molto utili, segnalano pezzi di server inattivo e forniscono un rapporto dettagliato dell’errore semplificando la risoluzione.

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Cons

Il consumo di CPU è spesso eccessivo, specialmente nelle operazioni debug. Il Team di Instana è lento a fornire risposte, settimane di solito e questo rallenta di molto il processo di installazione e configurazione.

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