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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
  • User-friendly interface makes it easy to spot and fix performance problems in a flash.
  • The platform's clever warning mechanism is excellent.
  • Customer care is fast and helpful.
Cons
  • Costly for small organizations.
  • The advanced customization options are limited.
  • The dashboard is cluttered.

Monitoring solution you should try.

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 30, 2024
SI
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Instana
2 years of experience
  • It detects slow database queries, inefficient code, or communication problems between services.
  • Allows you to proactively identify issues like network bottlenecks or server resource exhaustion before they cause disruptions.
  • You can correlate network issues or infrastructure downtime with specific application performance problems.
Cons
  • Instana’s interface and depth of features can be overwhelming for new users.
  • Instana's pricing model, often geared toward enterprise environments, may not scale well for smaller organizations or those with limited budgets.

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
  • has autonomous instrumentation
  • has powerful integrated AI
  • has great anomaly detection
Cons
  • though IBM Instana is very powerful and effective, it's high cost can be a problem for some organization
  • has limited options for customization
  • needs a way to accurately calculate the annual cost projections

Developer perspective of Instana

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 27, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Instana
1 year of experience
  • Simple to use dashboards
  • Tracing of calls is very much better than other similar tools
  • Seamless integration for backend systems through agent
Cons
  • Need to have flexibility for users in building custom metrics
  • Grouping of error messages using patterns matching has to be better
  • Alerting based on custom metrics and multiple conditions at a time should be present
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