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    IBM Instana Observability PayPerUse (with 14-day free trial)

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    Play with Instana is a free, hands-on sandbox environment where you can explore full observability features in a live, production-like system with no setup or installation required. Try it here https://ibm.biz/play_with_instana 

    Instana redefines performance monitoring for cloud-native applications, delivering speed, efficiency, and automation. It's the ideal complement to AWS, enabling agile development and real-time adaptability to evolving infrastructure and application dynamics. With Instana, auto-discover application components, trace requests, and map dependencies effortlessly, ensuring unparalleled visibility to navigate rapid changes effortlessly.

    Our industry-leading 1-second granularity and comprehensive request tracing guarantee no issue escapes detection. Gain full-stack visibility across application code, Kubernetes containers (EKS/ECS), and micro-services with user-friendly dashboards and SmartAlerts™ for tailored alerts. Seamlessly integrated into AWS, Instana supports over 300 technologies, providing worry-free performance monitoring.

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    • Built-in automation and AI help you deploy and start collecting insights across your full stack within minutes. Automated root cause analysis and recommendations provide faster issue resolution.
    • Unlike competitors that sample traces, Instana captures 100% of all requests in real-time, ensuring complete visibility into application performance.
    • Seamlessly integrate your IT landscape with AWS services and 300+ integrations with no visibility gaps across your cloud, micro-services and containerized environments.

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    IBM Instana Observability PayPerUse (with 14-day free trial)

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    1 Standard Managed Virtual Server (MVS) hour
    Standard: All-in-one Observability (Infrastructure, Tracing, EUM, Synthetics)
    $0.12
    1 Essentials Managed Virtual Server (MVS) hour
    Essentials: Basic Observability (Infrastructure Monitoring only)
    $0.03

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    All fees are non-cancelable and non-refundable, and Client shall not be entitled to a refund for any amounts already paid except as otherwise provided in the End User License Agreement (EULA).

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    Piyush T.

    Instana Monitoring tool Review

    Reviewed on Jul 23, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    It's easy to use and implement on our Tomcat server, with a user-friendly UI and rich features that simplify daily monitoring. We use it frequently for real-time, AI-powered root cause analysis, helping us quickly identify issues in complex, distributed environments. Reliable customer support is readily available when needed.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    It is ease to use, nothing to dislike. One of the best in market.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Instana helps us find the root cause of issues in our web application using its dashboard and alert system. It solves the problem of monitoring our services, helping us keep them efficient and reliable.
    Computer Software

    Instana review

    Reviewed on Jul 22, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Instana is easy to set up and quickly gives clear insights with a simple interface. It's great for debugging, as you can trace calls, check logs, and spot issues fast. During load testing, real-time request tracking helps a lot. It’s reliable, easy to use, integrates well, and the support from IBM is excellent—I use it daily and it always delivers.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    At first, we had some trouble using Instana, but once we got familiar with it, it became very easy to use. I don't really have any dislikes to mention—it's definitely worth trying, especially for your first project. The high CPU usage used to be a challenge during debugging and load testing, but that has improved a lot recently, making the overall experience much smoother.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    The best part about Instana is how it alerts me instantly if any server crosses a threshold or an API fails—even on my phone, anytime, anywhere. It helps me catch issues early, and even if support is sometimes slow, the team resolves them through updates. It’s been a big help in monitoring cloud infrastructure.
    Computer & Network Security

    Instana is very good software for monitoring.

    Reviewed on Jul 14, 2025
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    What do you like best about the product?
    The main thing I like in the instana is that it is very easy to use. The implementation of this software is very smooth. We got the excellent customer support from the team, we use it regularly and it has lot of features.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    I don't think that anything I dislike in IBM instant everything is good in it. The UI part is very smooth, but page reloads every time if I try to click different component of the pages. So everything is good. The UI part should be Check.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    It is given each and every a lot if the system have some disaster or some effect increases some limit. So every time I get the mail it is the more important thing. If I am busy with some other task I can know by checking the mail the issue with the system or the server.
    Ashish T.

    IBM Instana useful for monitoring server in monitoring.

    Reviewed on Jul 11, 2025
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    What do you like best about the product?
    I have liked the thing IBM is providing the quality thing means they never make or feel regret for any customer. I love it because of this reason only. The in summer is very easy to use software. We can implement easily. We get excellent support from the team and I really use it frequently in a day. It has very easy to integrate.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    I have multiple reason to chose it. So I can't say bad features that I disliked.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    It resolves my issue of the taking the server issue on priority by checking the servers UI we can know where it is failing.So it benfits me by recognising the issue in the early face only.
    Telecommunications

    Instana is very useful to see the view of alerts and monitoring.

    Reviewed on Jul 08, 2025
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    What do you like best about the product?
    Instana is very easy to use, it can be implemented, it works very easily in the software and the customer support we get from the team is very excellent. If I say truly I regularly use this.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    I can't say that I'll dislike anything in because it have a lot of features in it, I can't deny. But the cost of that subscription of is not affordable. It should be taken care.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    The problem is solving for me is the thing. It is getting the alert for each and every disaster we got in our server. Means if you get any disaster or is to cross the any threshold value it directly send you a email. So you can directly check which things is having some error or which API is going wrong. You can see everything in your mobile phone also. So I. like. Like I love most that if you are at night, if you want to see that you can see in the mobile phone that which server having some fault or which API is getting hit. I love it.
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