Audience

DevOps-driven teams requiring a solution to optimize and automate their observability and application monitoring operations

About IBM Instana

IBM Instana is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3 seconds to notify.

With today’s highly dynamic and complex cloud environments, the average cost of an hour of downtime can reach six figures and beyond. Traditional application performance monitoring (APM) tools simply aren’t fast enough to keep up or thorough enough to contextualize the issues identified. Also, they are typically limited to super users who must complete months of training to learn.

IBM Instana Observability goes beyond traditional APM solutions by democratizing observability so anyone across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps and development can get the data they want with the context they need.

Instana Dynamic APM operates using the Instana agent architecture, which incorporates sensors—lightweight, automated programs tailored to monitor specific entities.

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Pricing

Starting Price:
$75 per month

Integrations

API:
Yes, IBM Instana offers API access
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Ratings/Reviews - 1 User Review

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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Company Information

IBM
Founded: 1911
United States
www.ibm.com/products/instana

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Product Details

Platforms Supported
Cloud
On-Premises
Training
Documentation
Webinars
In Person
Videos
Support
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IBM Instana Frequently Asked Questions

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IBM Instana Product Features

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Root-Cause Diagnosis Not Supported
Server Performance Not Supported
Trace Individual Transactions Not Supported
Diagnostic Tools Not Supported
Resource Management Not Supported
Baseline Manager Not Supported
Performance Control Not Supported
Full Transaction Diagnostics Not Supported

Database Monitoring

Anomaly Detection Not Supported
Historical Trend Analysis Not Supported
Capacity Planning Not Supported
Performance Monitoring Not Supported
Permissions / Access Controls Not Supported
Troubleshooting Not Supported
Prioritization Not Supported
Resource Optimization Not Supported
Predictive Analytics Not Supported
Autodiscovery Not Supported
Query Analysis Not Supported
Dashboard Not Supported
Notifications / Alerts Not Supported
Multitenancy Not Supported
Dependency Tracking Not Supported

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Health Monitoring Not Supported
Performance Monitoring Not Supported
Alerts / Notifications Not Supported
Reporting / Analytics Not Supported
Data Movement Monitoring Not Supported
Point-in-Time Visibility Not Supported
Capacity Planning Not Supported
Virtual Machine Monitoring Not Supported
Multi-Platform Support Not Supported
Bandwidth Monitoring Not Supported
Application Monitoring Not Supported
Configuration Change Management Not Supported

Network Monitoring

Uptime Monitoring Not Supported
Server Monitoring Not Supported
Diagnostic Tools Not Supported
Web Traffic Reporting Not Supported
Resource Management Not Supported
IP Address Monitoring Not Supported
Bandwidth Monitoring Not Supported
Baseline Manager Not Supported
Internet Usage Monitoring Not Supported
SLA Monitoring Not Supported
Real Time Analytics Not Supported

System Monitoring

Remote Monitoring Not Supported
Device Monitoring Not Supported
Server Monitoring Not Supported
Alerts / Notifications Not Supported
Patch Management Not Supported
Service Configuration Management Not Supported
Inventory Management Not Supported
Policy-based Automation Not Supported
Risk Analysis Not Supported
Reporting / Analytics Not Supported
Data Backup / Recovery Not Supported
Antivirus Management Not Supported

Website Monitoring

Transaction Monitoring Not Supported
Event Logs Not Supported
Mail Server Monitoring Not Supported
Performance Metrics Not Supported
Event-Based Notifications Not Supported
Availability Testing Not Supported
FTP Monitoring Not Supported
Maintenance Scheduling Not Supported
Real Time Monitoring Not Supported
Uptime Reporting Not Supported

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IBM Instana Verified User Reviews

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  • Tjeerd S.
    CEO/CIO
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Company Size: 26 - 99
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "INSTANA "

    Posted 2021-11-18

    Pros: Easy to configure, in depth monitoring, price. The interface and AI Expert advise are a great asset to quickly detect a problem a take action.

    Cons: It provides everything a performance specialist needs to detect a problem.

    Overall: Very good easy to understand, clear interface and in combination with Turbonomic a great value for enterprise and medium sized companies.

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