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.
Read full review Great for organizations that need to centralize different types of logging across integration, qa, sandbox and production environments. Would be less impactful for organizations that don't have complex logging needs.
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 Providing in-depth insights A related content feature which really helps us to figure out which service is breaking the infrastructure. The Log explorer which helps us to explore the entire log and pin point the errors/issues. Fast and powerful log investigation 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 Integrating the system with Slack channels Saving the logs in different cloud provider Viewing the logs at more fine grained level based on user roles and permissions Read full review Likelihood to Renew I'm a Splunk specialist, and I'm involved in its use and improvement.
Read full review Usability It gives access to data features for every level of users: from managers and executives to Analysts, each one with the correct level of observation and analysis.
Read full review Support Rating Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available.
Read full review Implementation Rating Follow a training before starting.
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 I had not considered other products because Splunk Log Observer was in use in my company before I started working there.
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 Significantly reduced the MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), which in turn has improved the end-user experience tremendously. Meets compliance requirements of security policies, audit, regulation, and forensics. Helps us to track/manage the resource usage on our cloud instances which has a direct implication on the recurring cost. Read full review ScreenShots