eG Enterprise vs. IBM Instana

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
eG Enterprise
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
eG Enterprise is a converged application and infrastructure monitoring solution that enables organizations to ensure peak performance of their business-critical applications and IT services. The vendor’s value proposition is that with eG Enterprise, users can monitor every layer and every tier of the IT infrastructure and connect performance insights across applications, user experience, business transactions, databases, servers, hypervisors, virtual desktops, storage and network devices, and…N/A
IBM Instana
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Instana, 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 host
Pricing
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Editions & Modules
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SaaS
$75
per month per host
Self-Hosted
$93.80
per month per host
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPlease contact info@eginnovations.com to learn more about pricing.
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Community Pulse
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
eG Enterprise
8.8
2 Ratings
14% above category average
IBM Instana
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Ratings
Application monitoring9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(27 ratings)
User Testimonials
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Likelihood to Recommend
eG Innovations
Product is excellent for Technologies monitoring
like Citrix, SAP, VMware, Oracle, Nutanix and 0365.
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IBM
I would recommend IBM Instana based on its strengths in automating application performance monitoring, dynamic tracing, and its ability to handle modern, containerized environments effectively. The automatic discovery and mapping feature, along with AI-powered anomaly detection, provide valuable insights for proactive issue resolution. However, I would consider factors such as the organization's specific technology stack, scalability requirements, and budget constraints. Conducting a thorough evaluation, including a trial or proof of concept, would be essential to ensure that IBM Instana aligns with our unique needs and contributes positively to our technology and business objectives.
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Pros
eG Innovations
  • Provides extensive visibility beyond the performance of apps and the entire infrastructure.
  • The excellent diagnostic capacities allow us to drill down issues and find their root cause.
  • Good APM capabilities.
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IBM
  • Collecting Kubernetes and Infra level logs and presenting in easy to understand visuals.
  • Tracing the end-to-end journey of an event and also categorizing by technology and Endpoints
  • Built-in and custom alerts help to monitor almost all of scenarios without much additional configuration.
  • Ability to create Applications to logical group important flows
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Cons
eG Innovations
  • eG Enterprise supports only traditional Deployment Architecture on Desktop, Windows server and Linux server
  • Could be Improve in Integration like accepting data from different monitoring tools and perform the data analytics like deduplication correlation etc…
  • I am sure the product is excellent for Technologies monitoring like Citrix, SAP, VMware, Oracle, Nutanix and 0365, Competitive licensing can defiantly give edge
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IBM
  • I believe that the "live" option in monitoring does not truly update the status in real-time, thus I must manually update to feel comfortable.
  • The call analysis tool might be improved, third-party resources are restricted, and the pricing is slightly more than competitors in comparable categories.
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Alternatives Considered
eG Innovations
Its Lacking Synthetic monitoring of VDI user
transactions and also doesn’t comprehensively monitor the technologies like SharePoint, SAP, Exchange etc...
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IBM
We chose IBM Instana for several reasons, and the most important one is that we didn't have to make changes in our code for nearly all of our applications for it to work. We are happy with the decision we made to use IBM Instana.
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Return on Investment
eG Innovations
  • Rapid and smooth trouble shooting for continued workflow.
  • The single pane of glass allows easy identification of problems across the entire framework.
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IBM
  • System down time is shortened as our ability to troubleshoot issues goes up.
  • Potential downtime is stopped as we are able to slow down calls/ availability of calls in response to monitoring the dashboard.
  • We are able to react to issues quickly through the smart alert system rather than manual checks.
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ScreenShots

eG Enterprise Screenshots

Screenshot of Real User Monitoring DashboardScreenshot of Transaction Flow Map - Business Transaction TracingScreenshot of Built-in Application Monitoring Dashboards with Code-Level VisibilityScreenshot of Automated Infrastructure Dependency Mapping and Root Cause DiagnosisScreenshot of Self-Learning Automatic Baseline ThresholdsScreenshot of Out-of-the-Box Reports for Historical Performance Analysis, Capacity Forecasting and Right-Sizing