Audience

DevOps-driven teams requiring a solution to optimize and automate their observability and application monitoring operations

About IBM Instana

IBM Instana is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3 seconds to notify.

With today’s highly dynamic and complex cloud environments, the average cost of an hour of downtime can reach six figures and beyond. Traditional application performance monitoring (APM) tools simply aren’t fast enough to keep up or thorough enough to contextualize the issues identified. Also, they are typically limited to super users who must complete months of training to learn.

IBM Instana Observability goes beyond traditional APM solutions by democratizing observability so anyone across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps and development can get the data they want with the context they need.

Instana Dynamic APM operates using the Instana agent architecture, which incorporates sensors—lightweight, automated programs tailored to monitor specific entities.

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Pricing

Starting Price:
$75 per month

Integrations

API:
Yes, IBM Instana offers API access
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Ratings/Reviews - 1 User Review

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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Company Information

IBM
Founded: 1911
United States
www.ibm.com/products/instana

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Platforms Supported
Cloud
On-Premises
Training
Documentation
Webinars
In Person
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IBM Instana Product Features

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Root-Cause Diagnosis
Server Performance
Trace Individual Transactions
Diagnostic Tools
Resource Management
Baseline Manager
Performance Control
Full Transaction Diagnostics

Database Monitoring

Anomaly Detection
Historical Trend Analysis
Capacity Planning
Performance Monitoring
Permissions / Access Controls
Troubleshooting
Prioritization
Resource Optimization
Predictive Analytics
Autodiscovery
Query Analysis
Dashboard
Notifications / Alerts
Multitenancy
Dependency Tracking

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Health Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
Alerts / Notifications
Reporting / Analytics
Data Movement Monitoring
Point-in-Time Visibility
Capacity Planning
Virtual Machine Monitoring
Multi-Platform Support
Bandwidth Monitoring
Application Monitoring
Configuration Change Management

Network Monitoring

Uptime Monitoring
Server Monitoring
Diagnostic Tools
Web Traffic Reporting
Resource Management
IP Address Monitoring
Bandwidth Monitoring
Baseline Manager
Internet Usage Monitoring
SLA Monitoring
Real Time Analytics

System Monitoring

Remote Monitoring
Device Monitoring
Server Monitoring
Alerts / Notifications
Patch Management
Service Configuration Management
Inventory Management
Policy-based Automation
Risk Analysis
Reporting / Analytics
Data Backup / Recovery
Antivirus Management

Website Monitoring

Transaction Monitoring
Event Logs
Mail Server Monitoring
Performance Metrics
Event-Based Notifications
Availability Testing
FTP Monitoring
Maintenance Scheduling
Real Time Monitoring
Uptime Reporting

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IBM Instana Verified User Reviews

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  • Tjeerd S.
    CEO/CIO
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Company Size: 26 - 99
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
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    "INSTANA "

    Posted 2021-11-18

    Pros: Easy to configure, in depth monitoring, price. The interface and AI Expert advise are a great asset to quickly detect a problem a take action.

    Cons: It provides everything a performance specialist needs to detect a problem.

    Overall: Very good easy to understand, clear interface and in combination with Turbonomic a great value for enterprise and medium sized companies.

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