IBM Instana - next step of APM
IBM Instana in our company gave us visibility with apllication performance monitoring that we didnt have. We mostly have containeraized …
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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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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 Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
The most common users of IBM Instana are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 31, 2024
IBM Instana - next step of APM
- out of the box traffic information from openshift
- integration with turbonomic
- easy defining apps in instana
- ai integration
- prediction
- detailed deep down tracking of the issues
- tracing analysis
- if it is able to show security updates
- Analytics should be more user friendly
December 12, 2023
IBM Instana review
- Automatic Discovery and Mapping
- Dynamic Tracing and Request Monitoring
- Root Cause Analysis
- User Interface Complexity
- Customization and Flexibility
- Integration with Third-Party Tools
November 20, 2023
Instana - The APM and Observability tool you need to try once !!
- Collecting Kubernetes and Infra level logs and presenting in easy to understand visuals.
- Tracing the end-to-end journey of an event and also categorizing by technology and Endpoints
- Built-in and custom alerts help to monitor almost all of scenarios without much additional configuration.
- Ability to create Applications to logical group important flows
- It's very difficult to create custom dashboards, only a handful of scenarios can be visualized to dashboards.
- Extracting information from Instana to further analysis into excel for example is something that can be improved. Using an API to get data is very limiting.
- Open telemetry features which allow to send application data to Instana is not working as documented.
November 17, 2023
Great tool
- Install and integration with a variety of runtime environments
- Monitoring of performance at an API level
- Automatic alerting
- Support for additional runtime environments (Apache Flink)
- Ability to monitor for missing components in an application inventory
- Monitors heavily utilized Oracle databases in great detail around the clock while incurring only a tiny overhead
- Provides graphical views of resource usage over time that show exactly where server resources are being consumed by various applications
- Helps with performance comparison analysis across different time periods and/or different database instances
- Bit slow when there are millions of logs I've found.
- Filters to filter the logs
- Investigate suspicious activities in employee accounts
- Reports on computers infected with malware
- Alerts for instances of equipments going offline
- Setup could have been a bit easier compared to other alternatives
- We face delay while integrating few AWS services
September 28, 2023
IBM Instana solves problems fast with smart moves
- easy to use
- real-time graphing results
- integration with other suppliers
- the price
- design of some part of the interface
- support assistance
September 20, 2023
The only APM that matters today.
- Smart Alerts, proactive notification of anomalies.
- Automatic Instrumentation and agent's automatic updates to install and forget.
- Automatic Correlation and Context Guide to know where and how things are moving.
- Continuous discovery of components and services.
- Built-in intelligence to detect issues and incidentes
- Ability to create KPIs from metrics, traces & logs.
- Refined capability to detect anomalies via signals.
- Cross-view-built dashboards to lower the number of clicks to move from Websites to Infrastructure.
September 12, 2023
Constructing success: A Blueprint for IBM Instana.
- Instana provides a complete picture of our IT infrastructure enabling complete understanding of system health.
- The automatic discovery and monitoring of all services and applications without any manual configuration.
- Anomaly detection and root cause analysis of arising issues.
- Enhanced cost optimization features could further help organizations like ours optimize spending.
August 24, 2023
The best APM software is easy to implement and use.
- It offers a lot of essential functions and is extremely simple to use straight away because of its clear user interface. We have a lot of services operating, and it's much easier to handle now that we have IBM Instana.
- It includes excellent visual representations in the form of charts, as well as an excellent drill down tool for debugging problematic calls and delayed transactions.
- With IBM Instana, system and application observability is now entirely automated, which is fantastic; its monitoring and tracing is genuinely transformational; and it is the AI-powered APM platform we've been waiting for.
- I believe that the "live" option in monitoring does not truly update the status in real-time, thus I must manually update to feel comfortable.
- The call analysis tool might be improved, third-party resources are restricted, and the pricing is slightly more than competitors in comparable categories.
August 23, 2023
Instantaneous IBM Instana
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Custom Dashboard
- API Performance
- Provide better customer support
- Cost Optimisation Suggestion
August 23, 2023
Alerts to good!
- Information
- Organization of data
- Interface Layout
- Flexibility in usage
- there could be some additional clarification on how logs work since different details seem to be broken apart more, but even this isn't to bad.
August 16, 2023
Easy setup, fast ramp up
- simple Installation
- Easy configuration
- User experience of frontend
- Fresh extension of alerts for logs
- Uptime checks only seam to be possible with synthetic monitoring
- Events for logs not grouped
- Logging of confluent kafka
August 16, 2023
A great value of money when it comes to APM
- Mapping and visualizing the entire infrastructure
- Alerting when things go wrong
- Kubernetes monitoring
- ChatOps with Slack integration
- One thing we needed once is seeing JVM-related metrics for our production workloads to investigate a memory leak. We expected better tooling from IBM Instana for this.
August 16, 2023
Go for IBM Instana, it's really worth every penny invested
- Monitoring
- Altering
- Report Generation
- Ease of operations
- UI Interface
August 16, 2023
IBM Instana, a good tool
- Tracing apps and services
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Dashboards
- Logs
- Graphical view of servers
August 16, 2023
IBM Instana - AS Analyze and Solve
- Use of performance
- Immediate alerts
- Reports in graphs
- Management area
- Technology area
- Administration area
August 16, 2023
Greatest visual APM
- I Like the date "shift" feature, which analyzed current trend vs x days back trend
- hardware utilisation graph is really good
- like the orgnaization of micro services, discoverability is really good
- notifications about expiry just shows up on the top
August 15, 2023
IBM Instana Adidas Hype
- It provides a history of API calls we have along with when spikes occur.
- It provides an Erroneous call rate showing the stability/user experience in that moment.
- Through kubernetes clusters we are able to allocate our resources better for demand.
- Smart alerts and automatic alert systems are somewhat hard to implement.
- Finding creators of either smart alerts or graphs is also hard to figure out.
- The learning curve with working on IBM Instana is very high.
August 15, 2023
Easy performance monitoring
- Monitor errors
- View current site performance
- See the impact of code changes
- Make it easier to see performance metrics at certain percentiles
August 14, 2023
Developer perspective of Instana
- Simple to use dashboards
- Tracing of calls is very much better than other similar tools
- Seamless integration for backend systems through agent
- 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
August 14, 2023
Instant feedback from Instana
- request tracing
- mitigate risks
- gives actionable feedback
- while the learning curve is good, onboarding could be better
- more help tracing warnings
August 14, 2023
My honest thoughts about Instana
- Tracing of HTTP calls, providing the details of the services involved
- Auto-discovery of the application stack through online agents installed on the machines
- Monitoring of the infrastructure
- More details about the traffic that is flowing (eg. capturing all headers and requests/responses for a small portion of the traffic for troubleshooting purposes)
- Performance of the web application (Instana itself) sometimes were not good
- Simplify the infrastructure tab
August 14, 2023
Trust On IBM Instana
- Application performance Monitoring
- Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
- Automate Root Cause Analysis
- Alerting and Incident Mangement
- Capacity planning and optimization
- Usability and User Experience
- Customization and Flexibility
- integration and compatibility
- Enhance Machine learning and Analytics