The solution is mainly used for observability and application performance management.
IBM Instana Observability (contract)
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Used for observability and application performance management
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The solution has a one-second resolution, giving you the status of your application within one second.
What needs improvement?
The solution should include log management and improve reporting and integration with Cognos.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using IBM Instana Observability for one year.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
IBM Instana Observability is a scalable solution that is usually recommended for enterprise businesses.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup is quite easy.
What about the implementation team?
You need to install a single agent to deploy the solution, which hardly takes any time.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution's pricing is reasonable compared to that of its competitors like Dynatrace. In India, the solution costs around INR 1,00,000 per node.
What other advice do I have?
IBM Instana's automated root-cause analysis has impacted our incident response times by integrating with other IBM products. A lot of banks are using the tool. Customers immediately see a return on investment with IBM Instana Observability. The solution supports our cloud-native application monitoring strategies. The application can be anywhere because it supports a hybrid cloud.
I would recommend the solution to any enterprise business that is really interested in application performance.
Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Good Observability tool in market
What do you like best about the product?
It gives good reporting metrics in the chart based formats which helps you to drill down into any KPI to find more details.
You could also look at the aggregate data.
You could also look at the aggregate data.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be better if they have given us some user customization to change the view as per user preference and the choice of chart library.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps our team for the proactive monitoring our applications. We can get a detailed view of all the db performance and container monitoring in a concise view.
Instana is the best APM for my Applications
What do you like best about the product?
- Fast install and configuration
- Efficient discovery by agents
- Easy of Use
- Efficient discovery by agents
- Easy of Use
What do you dislike about the product?
- Instana does not ingest and analyze logs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Various applications to get observability
- Simplicity on setup
- Simplicity on setup
Excellent Application Performance Monitor tool easy to configure and use
What do you like best about the product?
Easy configuration, strong with cloud native applications, full stack visibility, excellent for Root Cause Analysis
What do you dislike about the product?
For the time beeing nothing there is no feature I dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
MOnitoring of SAP application and SAP HANA DB monitoring
Instana Experience
What do you like best about the product?
What I really appreciate about Instana is its excellent user interface. It's also incredibly useful that I can monitor details from multiple servers simultaneously, a feature I use frequently throughout the day. Additionally, the customer support is outstanding, and it's very easy to integrate into our projects. These are the main aspects I've found most valuable.
What do you dislike about the product?
While I can't find anything to dislike about Instana given its wealth of features, the subscription price is a significant concern as it's currently too expensive for us.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitor services and detect and track interactions in applications using microservice architecture.
perfect for microservices
What do you like best about the product?
Great tool to monitor your microservices (on-premise and/or Cloud)
It also gives you recommendations on how to proceed to fix problems.
It also gives you recommendations on how to proceed to fix problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Perhaps one of the biggest problems is the poor marketing of this tool.
I see that it is a tool with a lot of potential (as long as it is used with Turbonomic)
I see that it is a tool with a lot of potential (as long as it is used with Turbonomic)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Typically companies have hundreds of microservices. This tool helps monitor these microservices and notify you if any of them are not working well.
IBM Instana Review
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Instana is very easy to use and customer support is very good. It offers a lot of functions and User Interface is very good. Monitoring and tracking is very good
What do you dislike about the product?
IBM Instana is a bit expensive. It requires a learning curve it requires experience to work on this. Setup can be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Instana helps to identify the root cause of the issue and integration is very simple
IBM Instana Review
What do you like best about the product?
Instana's paltform monitors applications automatically and provides real-time insights for DevOps. It helps improve performance, innovation, and risk management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Apart from high pricing and a limited support for legact apps rest is fine. Platform is headed in right direction.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helped in monitoring customer DevOps environment.
IBM Instana - APM Tool for effective monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Instana is a cool application for monitoring my complex applications. The insights are good to decide for our future planning of applications and resources for our cloud platforms. The monitoring by IBM Instana is real-time so that we can see our bottle necks and perform immediate actions if something is not in line.
What do you dislike about the product?
I feel the cost of the service is higher compared to other similar softwares in the market. The learning curve of IBM Instana is higher, where experienced persons only can effectively use the service. This service is exclusively built for some platforms where others find it difficult to perform certain task
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use IBM Instana for managing and monitoring my application performance. We identify the applications' bottlenecks in real-time and make necessary processes. The service also helps us identify the root cause of the issues and provides various insights around it. The correlation among the various complex components is handled by this service.
IBM Instana: A mixed bag
What do you like best about the product?
- The standout feature has to be the consistently responsive customer service. They are remaining attentive and helpful. It is reassuring they are there when you need them.
- Instana casts a wide net when it comes to monitoring. It is a versatile tool when it comes to monitoring. The break down of traffic and infrastructure that it does for you can really help you stay on top of your game.
- Instana casts a wide net when it comes to monitoring. It is a versatile tool when it comes to monitoring. The break down of traffic and infrastructure that it does for you can really help you stay on top of your game.
What do you dislike about the product?
- It is hard not to notice a slowdown in innovation since the IBM acquisition. While stability is essential, we all carve fresh features and improvements.
- Instana offers a smorgasbord of monitoring capabilities. Some features shine, but others lag behind. It is a bit of a mixed bag.
- Instana offers a smorgasbord of monitoring capabilities. Some features shine, but others lag behind. It is a bit of a mixed bag.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automated anomaly detection done for us. It follows best practices and is done in an integrated way that would be difficult to accomplish on our own.
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