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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.
To try Instana for free, visit this Instana AWS Marketplace listing: https://ibm.biz/aws_marketplace-instana_paygoÂ
Highlights
- 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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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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1 Standard Managed Virtual Server (MVS) hour | Standard: All-in-one Observability (Infrastructure, Tracing, EUM, Synthetics) | $900.00 |
1 Essentials Managed Virtual Server (MVS) hour | Essentials: Basic Observability (Infrastructure Monitoring only) | $240.00 |
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1GB Data Ingest | Billed for data ingestion exceeding the included allowance under the 'Fair Use Policy.'* | $0.25 |
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 |
1000 RU Managed Point of Presence add-on exceeding usage | Managed Point of Presence add-on exceeding usage | $12.00 |
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Automated Discovery
Auto-discovers application components, traces requests, and maps dependencies across infrastructure and application environments
Performance Monitoring
Provides 1-second granularity performance monitoring with comprehensive request tracing across full-stack environments
Technology Integration
Supports over 300 technologies with seamless integration across Kubernetes containers, micro-services, and cloud environments
Real-time Tracing
Captures 100% of all requests in real-time without sampling, ensuring complete application performance visibility
Intelligent Alerting
Offers SmartAlerts with automated root cause analysis and tailored recommendations for faster issue resolution
Observability
"Full-stack monitoring with automatic discovery and continuous tracking of AWS applications and infrastructure from code-level insights to end-user tracing"
Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
"Automatic discovery and optimization of EC2 instances across Availability Zones using CloudWatch API"
AI-Driven Analytics
"Real-time analysis of complex ecosystems and billions of events with AI-powered root cause analysis and correlation"
Runtime Application Security
"Instant detection and blocking of vulnerabilities and threats in runtime cloud applications"
Multi-Cloud Technology Support
"Native integration with Amazon EC2, Elastic Container Service, Elastic Kubernetes Service, Fargate, Lambda, and over 90 AWS technologies"
Observability Platform
Fully managed platform integrating Prometheus metrics, logs, traces, and Grafana visualizations
Data Source Integration
Supports integration with over 100 external data sources including AWS CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, Graphite, and InfluxDB
Open Source Technologies
Powered by Grafana Labs' open source observability software including Grafana Mimir for metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, and Grafana Tempo for traces
Performance Testing
Integrated with Grafana k6 for comprehensive performance and load testing capabilities
Incident Management
Includes Grafana Incident and Grafana OnCall for streamlined incident response workflow management
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Computer & Network Security
Instana is very good software for monitoring.
Reviewed on Jul 14, 2025
Review provided by G2
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
Review provided by G2
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
Review provided by G2
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.
Telecommunications
Instana is very useful for monitoring of server through UI.
Reviewed on Jul 05, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Instana is where it has number of features in it customer support getting from them is very good we regularly it to contain a day it is very easy in the server and we get in a very big and then it have all of it so I recommend.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have liked the things in the instana very much is its UI.and everything in it is good quit so I can recommend to have integrate it with you project.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM instana is very useful when it comes to the logs and server monitoring and used for disaster happen in the system. Getting the core issue is the main concern for me and it help me to get this easily.
Vicky K.
Instana is a good monitoring server. We can use it to get the details of the server health.
Reviewed on Jul 05, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
In instana I like the thing that is the UI part that is very good. And the second thing we can check the multiple servers details at once. That is very very good thing. I have seen in that and I have used frequently in a day. We get the excellent customer support from the team and it is very easy to implement to our project. This is the main things I have liked in this.
What do you dislike about the product?
The thing I can say that at first we are getting. Issue in using this but once we go through the things it will be very easy to use. So I can't say that any dislike about IBM instana that I can mention here but it is worth it. Be used for your first project.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It help me to the best way to monitor the cloud infrastructure in a very easy way and to get the alert disasters if there will be in in any of the servers so I can get any fault at once here. So this is the main issue it is resolving for me. So I give 5 star to the IBM for this purpose.