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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AppNeta

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    AppNeta provides performance monitoring solutions for distributed, cloud-connected, digital enterprises. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions give IT teams application and network performance data, allowing them to constantly monitor user experience across any application, network, data center or cloud.N/A

    IBM Instana

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AInstana, an IBM company since the December 2020 acquisition, provides APM services for SOA, microservices, containerized applications and Kubernetes, and cloud native applications, as well as discovery and monitoring for IT assets.

    $75

    per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)

    Pricing
    AppNetaIBM Instana
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $20
    per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
    Standard
    $75
    per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
    Self-Hosted
    $93.80
    per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AppNetaIBM Instana
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AppNetaIBM Instana
    Considered Both Products
    Broadcom
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    99%
    Would buy again
    87 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    75 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    88 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    52 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    67 Answers
    Features
    AppNetaIBM Instana
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of AppNeta and IBM Instana
    Feature
    AppNeta
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Instana
    9.2
    31 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings9.631 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings8.723 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings9.529 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings9.327 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.930 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of AppNeta and IBM Instana
    Feature
    AppNeta
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Instana
    6.4
    19 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Patch Management00 Ratings5.912 Ratings
    Service configuration management00 Ratings6.414 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings6.816 Ratings
    Policy-based automation00 Ratings6.617 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of AppNeta and IBM Instana
    Feature
    AppNeta
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Instana
    8.0
    27 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings8.625 Ratings
    Customizable reporting00 Ratings7.822 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings8.727 Ratings
    Risk analysis00 Ratings7.019 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of AppNeta and IBM Instana
    Feature
    AppNeta
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Instana
    7.5
    19 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Data backup and recovery00 Ratings6.513 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management00 Ratings6.911 Ratings
    Administrator access control00 Ratings8.919 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AppNetaIBM Instana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.4
    (88 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AppNetaIBM Instana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    AppNeta is awesome for getting site-to-site statistics or trying to find out why at 3 am every night, this server loses connectivity to another server in a different data center. But we have found the multiple bugs in the hardware hard to deal with when the devices are a 4-hour plane ride away and require someone to console into the device.
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    IBM
    Well-suited for an org with a large application base, where many microservices are created and destroyed daily. IBM Instana doesn't require any manual configuration, so deploying the Instana agents takes very little time. Data capture from IBM Instana is highly granular and can detect even short spikes lasting a few seconds. Not suitable for legacy applications where there will be rarely any changes. They can use a simpler monitoring mechanism. Also, highly dense data capturing can sometimes overload the information.
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • AppNeta provides detailed application availability & uptime.
    • AppNeta provides great longitudinal data regarding how the applications perform including an overall grade or "AppDex."
    • AppNeta sends notifications of service downtime that aids in technical dispatch.
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    IBM
    • Can monitor application(s) and system(s) with very large throughput of transactions by the second ( it gets everything !!!)
    • Provide strong drill down for your applications and will tell you where the points of failure of an application's is ( servers , network , Databases , etc you name it )
    • Very easy to set up and have it up and running when using the SaaS solution. There's an on premise solution which works just as well but requires more effort and preparation from an infrastructure point of view for your teams to implement.
    • Continuously improve their features and their agents auto-update and keep up. All while not interfering with your applications.
    • Let's you create your own dashboards and visualizations that can be tailored for different kind of users with the data collected.
    • Create your own events and smart alerts so you can know on the spot if something is happening or is likely to happen that needs addressing on your applications / systems
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • Hardware has a lot of bugs.
    • Auto-updates cannot be turned off on the hardware, causing blips in monitoring.
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    IBM
    • It's very difficult to create custom dashboards, only a handful of scenarios can be visualized to dashboards.
    • Extracting information from Instana to further analysis into excel for example is something that can be improved. Using an API to get data is very limiting.
    • Open telemetry features which allow to send application data to Instana is not working as documented.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Instana has been able to fulfill our all requirement and provide out of box solution for multiple component like AWS RDS Monitoring and real time alerting setup on basis of that. it is also easy to integrate with other open-source alerting and monitoring tools which makes it easier to incorporate into our solutions
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    Usability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM Instana totally alters our monitoring approach since it increases the stability of the system and simplifies the process of problem solving. And since it helps to lower the degree of alert exhaustion that we experience, it is a total game changer for us.
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    Timely support is one of AppNeta's strong suits. But the ability to develop permeant fixes for issues within there product is where they lack.
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    IBM
    IBM instana support team is good but when we ask them for support, they keep asking same thing again and again and mostly there is no solution
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    We currently use Nagios/GroundWork and Cacti to perform network monitoring. AppNeta's UI is far superior.
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    IBM
    Instana is much more robust and modern compared to our previous product which was AppDynamics. We compared Dynatrace and Datadog and they were very similar in many aspects. The licensing simplicity with Instana and our existing relationship with IBM made it a much more enticing option and accelerated the adoption timeline
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • A reduction in network outages and length of network outages.
    • More detailed post outage investigation available.
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    IBM
    • Increase up time by early failure identification and performance optimization based on findings in Instana.
    • Enhance user experience by mapping user issues with backend failures
    • Automated actions help fixing known issues without human intervention
    • increase support team efficiency by root cause analysis which decrease the incident solving time
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    ScreenShots

    AppNeta Screenshots

    Screenshot of a visualization for monitoring what apps are in use on a network.Screenshot of AppNeta's in-depth diagnostics, used by IT Ops to identify the root cause of network and app performance issues.Screenshot of the enhanced Selenium scripting that can be used for web synthetic monitoring to benchmark and alert on performance for business-critical SaaS apps.Screenshot of monitoring of the actual application path with multi-protocol route determination for TCP, UDP and ICMP. Key network metrics can be tracked, like Latency, Loss, Capacity and Jitter continuously with AppNeta.Screenshot of how AppNeta correlates poor performance per host and--with Active Directory--with users.Screenshot of monitoring the usage of a network for recreational apps to see when they're stealing bandwidth from your business critical apps. Users can segment by location or app to drill into more details across the entire AppNeta Performance Manager dataset.