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Instant feedback from Instana
August 14, 2023

Instant feedback from Instana

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Instana

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.
  • request tracing
  • mitigate risks
  • gives actionable feedback
  • while the learning curve is good, onboarding could be better
  • more help tracing warnings
  • filtering requests
  • tracing dependencies
  • warnings on latency
  • only considering the latency improvements the ROI must be in the 6 digits area.
The ease of use and reliability made us keep Instana and we're happy with it.

Do you think IBM Instana delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Instana's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Instana live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Instana go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Instana again?

Yes

I would recommend using Instana for any colleague that needs to trace requests, filter them, find patterns, measure latency, and check dependencies of course depending on the business goal.
There are no situations in which I would recommend other tools for these actions, nor similar ones. That's also because we are careful with the number of tools we are using and we keep only the best.