Monitoring solution you should try.
September 30, 2024

Monitoring solution you should try.

Salah-eddine ISMAILI | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Instana

Instana was the perfect solution for my case. After one and a half years, I can say it's more efficient and reliable in the IT department daily. It will help you gain deep insights into performance issues across multiple sites and companies. It detects slow database queries, inefficient code, or communication problems between services.

Pros

  • 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.
  • One of Instana’s core strengths is its real-time monitoring and automatic root-cause analysis, which helps detect issues before they escalate into critical failures.
  • Provides deep insights into application performance, monitoring everything from code-level performance to infrastructure interactions.
I would say it's a good monitoring solution before many other solutions.
  • Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Prometheus

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

Not sure

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

Complex, distributed microservices architectures. Hybrid environments with real-time root cause analysis needs. Continuous integration and CI/CD pipeline monitoring.Multi-region end-user experience monitoring. Dynamic scaling in cloud environments.

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