Easy setup, fast ramp up
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Instana
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.
- 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
- Easy installation
- Configuration of alerts
- Alerts for logs
- Positive: Better customer communication about system availability
- Positive: Faster reactions on incidents
- Positive: Better understanding of problems of the system
- Prometheus and Grafana
IBM Instana was an easier setup and to manage. However, we are still using Grafana and Prometheus to monitor Kafka.
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?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of IBM Instana go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy IBM Instana again?
Yes