The only APM that matters today.
Updated September 20, 2023

The only APM that matters today.

Luis Sanchez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Instana

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.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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.
  • Smart Alerts.
  • Auto Instrumentation.
  • Low cost of ownership.
  • SaaS
  • Positive, lower MTTR.
  • Positive, end-to-end visibility.
  • Positive, single source of truth for performance and issue's handling
Better value for the money. Easiest license model. Automatic features included to help installation of agents, continuos discovery of services, dependencies and components, update of agents, smart alerts, tracing without sampling and a low step learning curve

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

Well-suited: Cloud-native platforms and deployments Java/.NET/nodejs shops Modern stacks with app servers, caches, NoSQL, SQL, Async Not well-suited: Legacy platforms ERP platforms Closed applications with lack of standards.

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