IBM Instana Observability (contract)
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Indispensable Monitoring Tool
What do you like best about the product?
I and my teammates use Instana regularly to investigate app failures, errors, and latencies.
What do you dislike about the product?
The results become less reliable over time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to find where errors have occurred, read the logs, and see if there were Infra changes or what may have caused the issue.
Full stack observability solution
What do you like best about the product?
As part of the engineering team, we rely on Instana for comprehensive visibility into our application. It integrates metrics and traces, which are invaluable to us as we seek to scale our product and broaden our user base.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am concerned that the tracing integration locks us into the platform (a variant of Open Tracing). Also, there is a lack of SDKs for other, less mainstream languages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It gives us an all-in-one platform to collect and analyze application metrics and traces. It is an invaluable help when debugging and troubleshooting performance issues in our services.
Great Monitoring Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use and very intuitive UI. You don't need to think too much to check errors and load numbers on a per endpoint or per service basis. You are also able to check error messages.
What do you dislike about the product?
The API documentation is not the best and it is not very clear what APIs do. Including examples with the endpoints could be very helpful in understanding its purpose.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It gives an insight as to which services are impacted by an incident and how does the chain of command follows the services. which makes it easier to debug the problems.
Instana, provides informations I need to know, not useless ones
What do you like best about the product?
I like the charts and graphics. Any time I can arrange a time zone, I can check the requests and bugs. After that, I can go into the HTTP request and get information about the details
What do you dislike about the product?
I wouldn't say I like the queries. I think that could be easier, or another option could be added. Also, every user could customize their main page and put shortcuts to the main page by their needs instead of filtering the services whenever they want to access them
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instana provides the logs in a better format with graphics and charts. And I can filter and examine them. Also, I can track the system and put alarms to prevent problems
Excellent User interface and not cluttered
What do you like best about the product?
The greatest advantage of using Instana APM is its ease of use. It eliminates the need to search through different components, such as Kubernetes namespaces, pods, or services, as everything is clearly and intuitively organized. This makes it easier for developers to quickly identify and address issues without having to spend countless hours trying to determine the root cause of a problem
What do you dislike about the product?
I have shared my feedback in several forums where the instana is lacking. They need to consider holding the logs for the events where the issues were identified. When an incident get's triggered by the instana agent, after certain duration like 7 or 10 days, the logs are getting archived. Now if the developer wants to check on the issue what happened, he would required to rely on log monitoring tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The serving our needs of Application peformance monitoring.
They are helpful in quickly jump into the part where the issue happened. The components were arranged in a better way where you can drill down to the core level without any hassle.
They are helpful in quickly jump into the part where the issue happened. The components were arranged in a better way where you can drill down to the core level without any hassle.
I use Instana almost everyday, its a awesome tool to monitor the product.
What do you like best about the product?
Once you get used to it, it's an excellent tool to monitor the product. I use it to monitor my deployments and the application's overall health and help identify bugs and their causes.
What do you dislike about the product?
I found it pretty intimidating at first. The onboarding experience for new users could be better; maybe some tutorials for useful features cause I still think I'm not using it to its full potential.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping me see my application's actual health and its moving parts. I can use it to monitor an endpoint that could be affected by my recent deployment or to get more information about a possible bug in production.
Confused at first but can help
What do you like best about the product?
I can see a lot of things about my applications, like memory consumption, errors, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
The data is not consistent, sometimes looks like there is a big delay or the data is not right
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a OK tool to monitoring your application, .NET application at least, and your infrastructure
Instana seems to work well out of the box (on day 1) but quickly becomes complicated
What do you like best about the product?
Baseline metrics/measurements "just work" so it's pretty easy to get started.
What do you dislike about the product?
Diving into details is troublesome as Instana lacks some other visibility into system behaviors. Stitching together user journeys has not been easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's great at creating an initial view of a technology stack
Using Instana to setup the dashboard for all the aws resources monitoring and alarming
What do you like best about the product?
Instana has some great features like installing a sensor instance that can grab all the metrics from all AWS resources within an account. A customizable dashboard is a fantastic feature. It is free for the licensing part.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dashboard designing is complicated Versus other tools like Grafana or Data dog. It is not straightforward.It is complex. There is not a lot of information available about designing dashboards and other functionalities in the form of videos to make user-friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Still trying to make it more userfriendly. There is some room to make simple and easy configure the dashboards and alerting mechanism. May be in future will be in a competitive position to other tools like Data Dog
Very Good Observatory tool for the Cloud applications
What do you like best about the product?
Instana used as a Observatory tool in our organization for the Cloud applications. This tool provides metrics and health details about the Cloud platform and the applications deployed and application insights also provided
What do you dislike about the product?
While Instana provides yaml configuration and APIs to modify the configurations, Sometimes Instana fails to show the instant alert or in a way the instana agent fails to collect the metrics. as a developer, we dont have much insights to the tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instana helps to get realtime metrics of the cloud infrastructure and the cloud based applications. Its an Observabiliy Tool. This will help us to get Application/infra metrics and get notified for the criteria we configure
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