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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    eG Enterprise

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AeG 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

    Score7.8 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
    eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    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
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    eG Innovations
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    61 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    Features
    eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of eG Enterprise and IBM Instana
    Feature
    eG Enterprise
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    11% above category average
    IBM Instana
    -
    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
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of eG Enterprise and IBM Instana
    Feature
    eG Enterprise
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Instana
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings5.54 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings5.54 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of eG Enterprise and IBM Instana
    Feature
    eG Enterprise
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Instana
    5.5
    1 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
    Policy-based automation00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of eG Enterprise and IBM Instana
    Feature
    eG Enterprise
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Instana
    6.5
    3 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Customizable reporting00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Risk analysis00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
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    Amazon CloudWatch
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score7.6 out of 10
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (60 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
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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
    • 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
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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
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    eG Innovations
    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
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    eG Innovations
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    eG Innovations
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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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...
    Incentivized
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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
    eG Innovations
    • Rapid and smooth trouble shooting for continued workflow.
    • The single pane of glass allows easy identification of problems across the entire framework.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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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