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IBM Instana

Overview

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

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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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Offerings

  • 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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Product Details

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 TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo

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.

Dynatrace, Datadog, and AppDynamics are common alternatives for IBM Instana.

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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Real-time monitoring with IBM Instana.

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 25, 2024
AK
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Instana
6 years of experience
Instana allows you to monitor mistakes and notify others by using a time filter. The user interface colors error logs and alerts, making it simple to find faults. Instana is a go-to for project monitoring. Their customer service is always helpful and quick to respond.

Monitoring solution you should try.

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 30, 2024
SI
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Instana
2 years of experience
Instana was the perfect solution for my case. After one and a half years, I can say it's more efficient and reliable in the IT department daily. It will help you gain deep insights into performance issues across multiple sites and companies. It detects slow database queries, inefficient code, or communication problems between services.

Instantaneous IBM Instana

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 09, 2024
We are using IBM Instana for monitoring stat of Kubernetes Cluster and VMs. Initially, whenever there was issue, we had to look for metric and log manually which was very hectic and it was not consolidated and it used to become very tough of tracking all apps in single place but with use of IBM Instana, it has become very easy for us. we can get all API calls details, errror rate, number of pods , event chnage,alerts all from single tool.

Application and infrastructure performance management in real time is made much easier with IBM Instana

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 20, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Instana
4 years of experience
We have been using IBM Instana's monitoring tools for a few years now and it has helped us overcome many obstacles in our project over the years. And with its user friendly interface, intelligent warning system and full stack monitoring, we had no problem in finding and managing performance related problems, no matter how complicated it was.
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