IBM Instana Observability Operator
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Comprehensive Monitoring, Needs Simplified UI
What do you like best about the product?
I love how IBM Instana allows for comprehensive tracking across front end, back end, databases, and cloud APIs, all combined in one place. This integration is incredibly valuable to me as it simplifies the process of monitoring and managing different components. I appreciate that Instana helps us in mapping our dashboard, detecting abnormal spikes which is crucial for us in the security field, and spotting unusual service communications. This has been essential in enhancing our ability to identify potential antivirus threats and streamline our processes both during development and in production. The tool has greatly contributed to making our operations smooth and secure by enabling faster identification of the root causes of issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find that IBM Instana's architecture could be improved to be more user-friendly. The current interface can be somewhat complex, which makes it take more time for me to understand it. Simplifying the interface would greatly enhance my experience with the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use IBM Instana for automated discovery and monitoring of servers, making processes smooth and secure by detecting anomalies and mapping dashboards.
Empowering Transaction Insights with a Promising Observability Tool
What do you like best about the product?
We are leveraging this tool to build an observability project aimed at enhancing visibility into declined transactions. Our goal is to identify the underlying causes of these errors and refine the customer-facing messages to facilitate self-resolution and improve the overall user experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
We are currently exploring the tool from both a business and UX perspective, so at this stage, I can’t identify anything I particularly dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping us reduce the rate of declined transactions by analyzing a wide range of errors and identifying which ones can be resolved directly by customers through an improved user experience.
Instana
What do you like best about the product?
Automated monitoring without manual configuration. Dynamic mapping of dependencies between services. Ready-to-use dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
Accurate alerts powered by machine learning. Support for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automated Full Stack Observability: Instana offers real-time monitoring with data updated every second, covering more than 300 technologies and platforms.Agentic and Generative AI: The platform incorporates artificial intelligence to accelerate incident detection, reduce false positives, and optimize application performance before it impacts the end user.Integration with IBM Middleware: It has been expanded to monitor products such as IBM MQ, WebSphere Liberty, IBM DB2, IBM App Connect Enterprise, among others. [www.zavatec.com.ar]Recognitions: In 2025, Instana was awarded the best IT infrastructure product by G2 and received the product of the year award from CRN.
One product to provide needed visibility on AI tools
What do you like best about the product?
Its easy to use and covers needed infrastructure observability for modern day AI components.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not sure if it can monitor non-IBM infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitor AI related infrastructure
See every bottleneck in an app in minutes
What do you like best about the product?
Instana provides observability without complexity
What do you dislike about the product?
limited deployment options for the core reporting server
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
single pane of glass view of the entire journey of application functionality and performance
Best observability tool
What do you like best about the product?
Instana is Easy to use, ease of implementation
What do you dislike about the product?
Can improve de offline desployment on IBM i
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WE gain visibility in complex environments and we can find the root cause fast
Middleware Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
I use instana to monitor openshift containers. I like Monitoring and alerting
What do you dislike about the product?
I am trying to do POC to integrate Instana with end to end call. at present it is not supporting all technologies
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
latency issues
Monitoring if you have more functionality
What do you like best about the product?
Monitoring and End to End tracing, ACE Dashborad
What do you dislike about the product?
Flow monitorning needs to be enabled.Flow monitorning needs to be enabled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Troubleshooting the high critical issues like especially like P1 and P2 issues.
Easy to customize
What do you like best about the product?
Clear and easy to understand the configuration tasks
What do you dislike about the product?
CPU usage of the agent is expensive for the servers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps to identify the problems and the root cause of them
Open Source is the Best
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Instana is based on open source software. It is a role model related to that inside of the IBM product portfolio.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not dislike anything. All is right.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring solution
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