IBM Instana

because of support and better agents for non containeraized workloads, virtual machines and lpars

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 troubleshoot further.

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, Stackify Retrace for error tracking, and Raygun for crash reporting. Each tool offers distinct features, and the choice depends on specific use cases, technology stacks, and organizational needs. Thorough evaluations, considering factors like ease of use, integration capabilities, and scalability, help in selecting the most suitable APM solution for effective application monitoring in a DevOps environment.

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 data we like, this has been solved beautifully in Instana and the user does not have to spend a lot of time in gathering or formatting data.

IBM Instana is easier to install and get fast results.

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.

IBM Instana goes beyond simply offering visibility into our IT operations, it is also a source of business intelligence and operational analytics.

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.

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

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 prices, nothing can stop IBM Instana's footsteps in the worldwide market.

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 mobile apps monitoring etc are very very cool feature of 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 breaking down the exact logs in a way we can easily present them to our end customers (many of which struggle to understand computers beyond their email).

IBM Instana was an easier setup and to manage. However, we are still using Grafana and Prometheus to monitor Kafka.

We selected IBM Instana because it is more accurate than Datadog.

We selected IBM Instana because of better support and other products that complement each other.

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.

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, it can give more customizable options while creating a dashboard. It is not as simple to use as Instana, but is much more configuable.

New Relic is quite and expensive option comparatively, but it has its own perks.

The ease of use and reliability made us keep Instana and we're happy with it.

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 the connections between agents and monitoring/tracing data servers.

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 instrumentation and deep instights into microservices. It has excellent observably in monitoring and optimizing in any applications. IBM Instana is often praised for its user-friendly interface and straight forward setup. It is designed to be easy to use for both technical and non-technical users.

AppDynamics requires a lot of manual configuration for basic API monitoring.
New Relic is very costly.

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 price, nothing can stop IBM Instana's steps in the international market, especially the big banks in the world in general and Vietnam in particular.