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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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Recent Reviews

IBM Instana review

9 out of 10
December 12, 2023
Incentivized
Instana is designed to monitor and analyze the performance of applications in dynamic and containerized environments, such as those based …
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Alerts to good!

9 out of 10
August 23, 2023
Incentivized
We primarily use it for checking for errors, automated notifications, and server level monitoring. That being said, we are planning on …
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IBM Instana, a good tool

8 out of 10
August 16, 2023
Incentivized
IBM Instana is a useful for troubleshooting and monitoring. It helps us deliver a smooth service for our developers, maintaining the front …
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Awards

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Pricing

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SaaS

$75

Cloud
per month per host

Self-Hosted

$93.80

On Premise
per month per host

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 host
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Product Details

What is IBM Instana?

Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by Dev+Ops to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline.


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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.

The most common users of IBM Instana are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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December 12, 2023

IBM Instana review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Instana is designed to monitor and analyze the performance of applications in dynamic and containerized environments, such as those based on microservices and Kubernetes. It offers features like automatic discovery of services, tracing of requests across different components, and the ability to detect and diagnose issues affecting application performance.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our team caters to different use cases in telecom sector including billing, marketing campaigns, value added services etc. This involves use of APIs, Microservices and Infrastructure from multiple vendors.
Each of these systems have their own format of logs and dependencies between systems is not very clear without having to go back to the documentations. Now we are using Instana as go to tool for identifying issues, improve observability and mapping flows between systems.
Some of the internal consumers have also started using Instana to have a clear picture of application and system state. The amount of information this tool collects (without much additional configuration) to provide insights is really helping both our team and the consumers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Instana has been instrumental in helping my company identify opportunities for performance improvement, which is a key competitive differentiator. The best thing about IBM Instana in production is the amount of time it saves us when investigating performance problems. It immediately highlights where things have changed either positively or negatively saving us valuable analysis time.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Automatic anomaly detection is performed by us. It follows best practices and is done in an integrated way that would be difficult to achieve on our own.The most significant benefit is the standard monitoring features that come with IBM Instana. It enables us to quickly ascertain the underlying cause of performance issues by assisting in the identification of patterns and departures from typical behavior. His thorough analysis is superb.
Luis Sanchez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use Instana to continuously get feedback about the behavior of systems and user's facing applications. Instana provides a very good approach to managing SLO and SLI, which are the basis of our methodology to address systems effectiveness and SLA. Together with automatic instrumentation and smart alerts, we have almost 360's degrees of visibility over the performance of the platform.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our journey with Instana began with the realization that traditional monitoring solutions were no longer sufficient for the IT supporting our construction projects. We use IBM Instana to monitor the performance of our construction management applications, including project management software, scheduling tools and collaboration platforms certifying their availability and responsiveness. Ensuring that these applications run smoothly is essential for efficient project execution.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Instana is tackling the problem of monitoring hundreds of APIs by filtering solely for faulty calls, which saves us a lot of time and makes it simpler to spot problems. IBM Instana is an excellent APM tool that allows me to track my services, analyze their performance, and strive to improve them. It is simple to connect with any production-ready application. IBM Instana has been absolutely fantastic in providing fast cloud system and application feedback, enabling for effective tweaking and real implementation; as a result, we have improved product functionality and performance.
Mayank Bansal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 23, 2023

Alerts to good!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We primarily use it for checking for errors, automated notifications, and server level monitoring. That being said, we are planning on expanding out current usage to include supporting specific event investigations as well as customer support investigations rather that for just planning how to correct address problems after they happen.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
I use IBM Instana for monitoring Kubernetes clusters for hardware and software issues, create alerts on log messages and issues since the customer needs to know how the system is behaving or if problems with master data come up.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Instana is a useful for troubleshooting and monitoring. It helps us deliver a smooth service for our developers, maintaining the front stack successfully. We use APM monitoring mainly, and the scope is around 30 Hybris websites. It's a good tool for production delivery and keeping our infrastructure in good shape.
Justin Horner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As our Hype products regularly attract large amounts of attention along with potential bots, we use IBM Instana in my area to check for the stability of API calls during high heat launches. We also use it to troubleshoot issues within our APP and to find out what went down and what magnitude the spikes causing our issues had.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use IBM Instana for monitoring website errors and performance, and I've been most impressed that I can get real-time updates on Core Web Vitals metrics. It shortens the feedback loop for making a code change to improve performance and makes it really fast and easy without having to wait weeks for updates from Google or other analytics suites.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As someone who is in close contact with QAs and SREs, this tool is one of the common areas where we play and identify risks. It's fast and reliable. Also, the learning curve is great considering that it might look overwhelming at first (if you are working in a big company and have lots of data points). The feature that I appreciate the most is the fact that I can filter requests very deeply and see their latency. This helped greatly when we tried to improve the speed of one of our features.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Instana is used for monitoring several business-critical applications both in Production and Non-Production environments. The most important feature that we use is the tracing of HTTP calls and their flow in the private infrastucture of our customers. In particular I used Instana to perform Performance tests on the release candidate software.
August 14, 2023

Trust On IBM Instana

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used mainly for monitoring and observing our applications. Our aims to address several business problems related to monitoring and optimizing the performance of complex application. It really helps in business monitoring the performance of our applications in real time.
It can identify performance bottlenecks, slow response times and errors in code, allowing developers and operations teams to proactively address issues and optimize application performance.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I often go to PoC at different big banks such as Military Bank, Public Bank Vietnam, EVN, Mobifone, BIDV. IBM Instana supports different teams like SerOps, DevOps, ITops, and BA. It gives teams the minimum time to be able to find the root cause of the problem when it happens and helps everyone. The user visualizes the entire application as well as calling services together, supporting multi-platform monitoring. Hardware overview. In short, IBM Instana is of great help to large enterprises, especially banks.
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