Likelihood to Recommend 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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Nagios -like monitoring systems, OpsView will be really easy for you to learn and manage. Migrations process will be relatively easy. You're getting great U/I that will speed up adding new objects to the system and present data in a clear, organized way. In addition it's easy to create dedicated dashboards for your clients.
Read full review 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 Read full review Easily extensible. We write many of our own monitoring plugins for Opsview and use open source Nagios community plugins as well Quick to deploy. Don't need to worry about all of the dependencies that you need to with something like Nagios It just works. Most of the housekeeping tasks are completely automated Nice visualizations and dashboards Read full review 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. Read full review pricey build in cloud monitoring packs need to be improved smb version is missing some powerfull features Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review Nagios and Zabbix - Opsview is much easier to setup and operate than both of them. SolarWinds Orion - Opsview is much more economical
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review helps to discover and remediate infrastructure problems quickly helps to present SLA diagrams for clients speeds up deployment proces for new solutions Read full review ScreenShots Opsview Monitor Screenshots