IBM Instana vs. ManageEngine Applications Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Instana
Score 8.0 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.
$20
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
ManageEngine Applications Manager
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
ManageEngine Applications Manager is an application performance management solution that also provides the ability to manage end user experience of enterprise Internet Services and hosted Web Services.
$395
per year per user
Pricing
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Editions & Modules
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)
Professional Edition
$395
per year per user
Enterprise Edition
$9,595
per year per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Considered Both Products
IBM Instana
Chose IBM Instana
IBM Instana provides automated discovery without manual configuration. It provides granular (per sec) data collection. It's easy to set up and supports on-Premises as well as cloud environments. It can be integrated with other tools, increasing its capability for advanced …
Chose IBM Instana
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 …
Chose IBM Instana
we migrated from another competitor solution as Instana was able to do 2 things differently for us - i.e., 1. we were able to get a complete landscape view of the application including its dependency and inter-connections as well as the underlying infrastructure it runs on 2. …
Chose IBM Instana
Instana won because of the zero-config auto-discovery and fast root cause analysis in complex, ephemeral environments.
Chose IBM Instana
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 …
Chose IBM Instana
IBM Instana is the first of its kind we have deployed
Chose IBM Instana
In my opinion, IBM Instana is great for infrastructure monitoring while AppDynamics is ahead in application monitoring
Chose IBM Instana
We chose IBM Instana for its very affordable price, the ease of use of the solution, which was perfectly suited to our needs and specifications, and the feedback from our teams, who had no trouble getting to grips with it in a very short time.The IBM Instana solution is very …
Chose IBM Instana
IBM Instana provides 60 seconds granularity whereas the other products use time series data
IBM Instana automatically detects the Service Endpoints which helps us trace all the calls pinpointed to service endpoints.
IBM Instana provides complete Auto Discovery with no …
Chose IBM Instana
Well again, it comes back to the application monitor. It does a better job than SolarWinds.
Chose IBM Instana
Automatic application discovery with one agent installation instead of manual configuration for each application and multiply agents for each technology stack.

Automatic tracing for application calls without the need to add complex configuration and application instrumentation.
Chose IBM Instana
The primary reason we choose IBM Instana was that is was compatible with nearly all of our apps without requiring any modifications to our code. We are really happy that we decided to adopt IBM Instana.
Chose IBM Instana
BMC TrueSight Automation for Networks and Dynatrace
Chose IBM Instana
1- ROI is higher as the budget is much less than other
2- the way of calculating license is much better and fit us and this affect the ROI
3- the ease of implementation
Chose IBM Instana
because of support and better agents for non containeraized workloads, virtual machines and lpars
Chose IBM Instana
IBM Instana meet LMRA requirements, as IBM Instana is more useful to deep-dive each transaction from Real-user monitoring itself when compared to other APM's in the market. Also gives more flexibility especially from the support perspective to identify bottlenecks and to …
Chose IBM Instana
As a DevOps engineer, I've explored various Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, including New Relic for real-time insights, AppDynamics for code-level visibility, Dynatrace for AI-driven monitoring, Datadog for comprehensive observability, Splunk for log management, …
Chose IBM Instana
Splunk is also a wonderful tool for log analysis and operational troubleshooting however auto discovery and dependency flow creation makes Instana standout. We have to do a lot of preprocessing to ingest and format data in Splunk and then write complex queries for gathering the …
ManageEngine Applications Manager
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
Improved vendor management, ensuring that vendors meet SLAs and contractual obligations.
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
Port monitoring is the main reason to switch from other products and have the best support response from ManageEngine.
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
We have AppManager plugin from Opmanger, works really well as it is in one console.
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
The ease of implementation, administration, maintenance and integration with the multiple types of monitors that the platform can collect (DATABASE, PROCESSES, SERVICES, PERFORMANCE, STORAGE, TABLESPACE, PORTS, DATA FOLDERS, CLOUD APPS, VIRTUALIZATION COMPONENTS, etc.) It took …
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
ManageEngine Application Manager provides comprehensive support and documentation, making it easy for IT teams to get up to speed quickly and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
We selected Managed Engine due to its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, which aligned perfectly with our requirements. It offered the best value for money, making it the ideal choice for optimizing our monitoring needs.
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
The support for distributed tracing and logging provided by ManageEngine Application Manager enables IT teams to quickly identify the root cause of performance issues across multiple tiers of applications and infrastructure.
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
APM is not resource hungry it does not impact resource usage when in use.
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
As per our Infrastructure It satisfied all our needs and more importantly it is pocket Friendly.
so far it is a good to go Tool.
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
No other products we have used so far. We are happy with the APM product currently being used as a 3-rd party tool to manage servers' health and availability. We are happy with the services all the time and highly recommend using them in organizations or cloud environments or …
Chose ManageEngine Applications Manager
Other solutions like Microsoft EM and SCCM can be interdependent and cause all sorts of issues and additional costs. I think software should be optionally integrated and work on its own as a standalone solution. I like that ManageEngine allows for specific use of its software …
Features
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Instana
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Ratings
ManageEngine Applications Manager
9.2
Ratings
16% above category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
4.5
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Instana is useful and provides a lot of benefit with the data that it displays, however there are some stability issues that need to be addressed before I could give it a higher rating. Also the interface has a steep learning curve. It would be nice if more complex alerting were possible.
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Managed Engine Applications Manager excels in monitoring virtual machine databases and general system health. However, it isn't designed for monitoring items like UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) systems. Its strengths lie in optimizing IT infrastructure, while UPS monitoring would be better suited to managed engine opsmanager.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Intuitive ease of the administration interface
  • Improvements and security fixes that are quickly integrated with frequent updates
  • Visibility into the status of our services and the end user experience (End to End)
  • Reports associated with attributes of services, applications or containers that help us detect certain flaws in our services.
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Cons
  • 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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  • Plugin Quirks where it times out
  • Navigation through some of the screen seems a bit confusing
  • Consistency such as where license info is location between op and app manager are in different places. Better if it were consistent
  • Maintenance schedules in different locations in both Op and App manger product, needs consistency. They are all Zoho products!!
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Likelihood to Renew
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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For the the trust, security and support that ManageEngine Application Manager has given us, for 12 years as clients, has made us very satisfied and grateful for the response times to resolve doubts or needs that we have had.
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Usability
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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The intuitive ease of the administration interface, the new features, improvements and security fixes that are quickly integrated with frequent updates. Tuning or more detailed reports associated with attributes of services, applications or containers that help us detect certain flaws in our services. The capacity for improvements that are implemented and the ease of integrating new monitors into the product, which we need, gives us the speed and ease of preventing interruptions or events that helps us avoid.
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Support Rating
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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The trust, security and support that ManageEngine Application Manager has given us, for 12 years as clients, has made us very satisfied and grateful for the response times to resolve doubts or needs that we have had.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM Instana provides automated discovery without manual configuration. It provides granular (per sec) data collection. It's easy to set up and supports on-Premises as well as cloud environments. It can be integrated with other tools, increasing its capability for advanced monitoring. Well suited for microservice environments that are ephemeral in nature, as its deployment is hassle-free.
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Other solutions like Microsoft EM and SCCM can be interdependent and cause all sorts of issues and additional costs. I think software should be optionally integrated and work on its own as a standalone solution. I like that ManageEngine allows for specific use of its software and not forcing users into an unneeded license or contract.
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Return on Investment
  • Let's me monitor and pinpoint issues across multiple critical systems and applications that work in tandem, reducing drastically, the time in identifying root cause and solving the issues.
  • Let's me deep dive into issues found with a lot of detailed information about particular requests , and find proper solutions by my own research or even with Gen AI assistant using Watson.x or you could prompt your AI solution of choice as well.
  • All systems fail at some point, so IBM Instana gives stakeholders ease that large complex and critical systems that affect the very livelihood of people is being observed with pinpoint precision and that issues are addressed promptly and with compass pointing north towards the problem's root cause and solutions.
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  • By providing valuable insights into application performance and resource utilization, it has contributed to better decision-making and resource allocation.
  • It has helped us identify and resolve performance issues more quickly, minimizing the impact on business operations.
  • ManageEngine Application Manager has improved our ability to monitor and manage critical applications, reducing downtime and improving overall productivity.
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