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Starting at $75 per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
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What is IBM Instana?
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.
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Pricing
Essentials
$18
Cloud
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Standard
$75
Cloud
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Self-Hosted
$93.80
On Premise
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $75 per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
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What is IBM Instana?
IBM Instana Observability automatically discovers, maps, and monitors all services and infrastructure components across on-prem and cloud, providing AI-driven application context, issue remediation to enhance IT operations. Instana’s zero-configuration dashboards help reduce toil for SRE and DevOps teams, helping them spend more innovating than troubleshooting. Its automated playbooks seamlessly address common issues and precise ML-driven alerts help manage rapid change, thereby enhancing infrastructure availability. These capabilities in help in predicting and managing IT budgets to support increase in demand during peak cycles.
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Freeing Dev+Ops teams from the complexity of application performance monitoring
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IBM Instana Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.
IBM Instana starts at $75.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.2.
The most common users of IBM Instana are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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