Chef Enterprise Automation Stack vs. IBM Instana

With enterprise IT assets in a multitude of ecosystems, cloud infrastructures and sometimes still left stuck in a legacy on prem architecture, IBM Instana makes it easy to get the right data to drive development and / or DevSecOps processes with tangible input from the target environment itself.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Unlike the above-mentioned platforms, IBM Instana's real-time observability and multiple Cloud Application performance monitoring options are a productive, very impressive solution for tracing and detecting performance issues. Its root cause analytics production is a wonderful Cloud system with responsive, easy-to-use functions during initial configuration.

• 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

Incentivized