IBM Instana Observability (contract)
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Very useful tool
What do you like best about the product?
Instana is a very powerful tool for monitoring, it has a lot of useful features and it's very easy to use since the first time because it has an intuitive UI. We have a high quantity of services running and it's been much easier to manage since we got Instana.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes i feel like the "live" feature in the monitoring is not really updating the status on real time, so I have to refresh manually to feel at ease. Also the statistics could be shown in a more clear way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instana is solving the problem that is monitoring hundreds of apis. We can filter by only erroneus calls, saving us a lot of time and making easy to detect problems.
Easy to setup through SaaS
What do you like best about the product?
Its best because helps to monitor the performance of my applications
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to explore more so far all looks good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we need to monitor performance of application in our devops pipeline so that we make good decision before customer feels the problems.
Great Company
What do you like best about the product?
I love the customer service at Instana. People are always very helpful and friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface usability could use some work to make it more user-friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It increases application performance which saves me and my company both time and money.
Long Time Provider, Great Service
What do you like best about the product?
Instana has been a long time partner of ours. While we have shopped and done some exploratory work of alternatives nothing has ever fit the bill like Instana. We enjoy the platform and the data we have visibility into.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing in particular comes to mind at this time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instana provides our company greater visibility into one of our product offerings allowing us to quickly respond to events and raise possible issues to clients in a prompt manner.
Best Performance Management Platform for our Application
What do you like best about the product?
It helps us identify any shortcomings in our application performance through it's detailed dashboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no perfect way to know what exactly causes downtime for our server.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us manage the performance of our application and make sure that the user gets the best experience out of it.
My Short Term Review of Instana
What do you like best about the product?
The footprint of Instana is small, providing continuous discovery and capturing of metrics with negligible manual human intervention.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently, I do not dislike any features of Instana.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instana is solving the component and technology discovery task and reducing manual human intervention, which significantly reduces the overhead cost of manual metric collection and analysis.
Simple tool
What do you like best about the product?
Saves time and reduces the amount of manual work required. It is effective at real-time monitoring and the tool is able to identify and recognise problems that are occurring at any given time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes instances that are listed in the product can be quite confusing and so may feel overwhelming when you initially start. However with continued use and practice, then over time as a SME user, it will be easy to navigate and understand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the business we required system monitoring. IBM solves this problem by allowing the ability to view system monitoring via several panels which allows report generation and therefore the analysis involved in order to make operational decisions.
I use the instana to monitor our company infrastructure almost all the components
What do you like best about the product?
I like the way it displays the servers in the dashboard. Also, I like the details captured for every incoming requests to the server.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it throws false alarms.need improvement there
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps companies identify the issues/problems on the servers, like the resource bottleneck, throughput issues, performance issues and any issues in running applications (In our case JVM).
Great tool to measure application performance
What do you like best about the product?
I like the way to accelerate CI/CD pipelines.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike documentation that is not always accurate
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Improving a lot CI/CD pipelines
I love Instana
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoying using Instana to for distributed tracing of our microservices setup
What do you dislike about the product?
.Net Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Linux is not easy to customize the instrumentation.json
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Error logging and distributed tracing is helping monitoring the microservices setup
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