IBM Instana

IBM Instana

68 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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

IBM Instana

Editions & Modules

SaaS: $75
per month per host
Self-Hosted: $93.80
per month per host

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Instana
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	IBM Instana
Considered Both Products	IBM Instana Verified User Manager Chose IBM Instana because of support and better agents for non containeraized workloads, virtual machines and lpars Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional 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, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager 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 … Incentivized Helpful? VT Vince Tkac Chief Architect Chose IBM Instana IBM Instana is easier to install and get fast results. Incentivized Helpful? GT George Thakur Senior IT Services Manager Chose IBM Instana 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. Incentivized Helpful? RT Ryan Tamez Manager IT Business Applications Chose IBM Instana IBM Instana goes beyond simply offering visibility into our IT operations, it is also a source of business intelligence and operational analytics. Incentivized Helpful? JH Jose Hernandez computer technician Chose IBM Instana We have used them and for the moment we have chosen IBM Instana first of all because of the price because it is accessible and it works in terms of the results we have obtained, also the way of presenting the schemes and the performance of the systems is very good. Incentivized Helpful? Luis Sanchez APM TAM Chose IBM Instana Better value for the money. Easiest license model. Automatic features included to help installation of agents, continuos discovery of services, dependencies and components, update of agents, smart alerts, tracing without sampling and a low step learning curve Incentivized Helpful? PC Petrina Cassano Project Manager Chose IBM Instana Superior value for money, simpler license approach with automated functions (installation, detection, update, and alarm). Nothing can stop IBM Instana's footprints in the international market as it progressively gains strength and grows in the market. With fair and inexpensive … Incentivized Helpful? Mayank Bansal SRE Chose IBM Instana New Relic has it's own perks but when it comes to large infrastructure, we always face some issue at stability but IBM Instana never fails here. In my opinion, Inbuilt dashboard and inbuilt alerting feature what makes IBM Instana better than compared to other tools. I think … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Advisor Chose IBM Instana In my experience, they both have independent strengths and shortcomings, though I have found IBM Instana to be much better for general monitoring and setting up alerts to get ahead of any problems. Contrastly, I think humio/Falcon has been easier to use when it comes to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose IBM Instana IBM Instana was an easier setup and to manage. However, we are still using Grafana and Prometheus to monitor Kafka. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose IBM Instana We selected IBM Instana because it is more accurate than Datadog. Incentivized Helpful? FR Frank Rios Systems Analyst Chose IBM Instana We selected IBM Instana because of better support and other products that complement each other. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose IBM Instana SpeedCurve offers more in-depth metrics for site performance but creates another set of dashboards to monitor. IBM Instana keeps the data centralized and makes many other metrics available at the same time and in the same place. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose IBM Instana Instana is better at call tracing than the previous ones and is cost effective as well. But AppD can do a better job at constructing customised metrics, alert profiles and alert conditions as well, but it misses a lot of important details while tracing a call. At the same time, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose IBM Instana The ease of use and reliability made us keep Instana and we're happy with it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose IBM Instana In terms of flexibility Instana wins by providing the auto-discovery functions that are very precious to my company since they allow monitoring and tracing of the application services even after big infrastructural changes. In this regars, competitors still require to hardwire … Incentivized Helpful? NS Nikhil Singh Associate Software Engineer Chose IBM Instana Datadog provides a more comprehensive platform, including APM, infrastructure monitoring, and log management. AppDynamics like IBM Instana offers end-to-end visibility, APM and business performance monitoring. IBM Instana competitive advantage might lie in its automatic … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose IBM Instana AppDynamics requires a lot of manual configuration for basic API monitoring. New Relic is very costly. Incentivized Helpful? QD Quyet Duong Solution Integration Developer Chose IBM Instana Dynatrace has been the market leader for a long time, so it is well received by many other businesses. But not so that IBM Instana lost its position in the international market. IBM Instana is gradually getting stronger and rising in the market. With a reasonable and affordable … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	IBM Instana
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (27 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Instana
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized PC Petrina Cassano Project Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized GT George Thakur Senior IT Services Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Justin Horner Operation Manager Read full review
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