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Instana Full-Stack Observability
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Play with Instana is a free, hands-on sandbox environment where you can explore full observability features in a live, production-like system with no setup or installation required. Try it here https://ibm.biz/play_with_instanaÂ
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.
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/unit |
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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 |
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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.
Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Flawless APM solution with infrastructure monitoring capabilities.
Reviewed on Jul 03, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Once you understand and adopt full capabilities of Instana's Application Perspective there is no turning back!
This feature (Application Perspective), coupled with associated SmartAlerts, are the perfect combination for any APM monitoring team.
The ease of use and extensive configuration options are also appreciated.
Another important APM aspect is Instana's tracing philosophy: 100% tracing, without sampling.
Adoption is easy, with major technologies being covered by automatic or minimal effort instrumentation and well documented alternatives for other integrations or implementations.
Instana offers both SaaS and Self-Hosted options with more than fair Pricing Plans for both options.
Our dedicated, locally available (region) technical support is always helpful and attentive, making sure to get us in touch with appropriate Instana PMs, whenever a major issue or relevant feature request arises.
Continuous fixes and frequent upgrade philosophy give us ease of mind for the future.
This feature (Application Perspective), coupled with associated SmartAlerts, are the perfect combination for any APM monitoring team.
The ease of use and extensive configuration options are also appreciated.
Another important APM aspect is Instana's tracing philosophy: 100% tracing, without sampling.
Adoption is easy, with major technologies being covered by automatic or minimal effort instrumentation and well documented alternatives for other integrations or implementations.
Instana offers both SaaS and Self-Hosted options with more than fair Pricing Plans for both options.
Our dedicated, locally available (region) technical support is always helpful and attentive, making sure to get us in touch with appropriate Instana PMs, whenever a major issue or relevant feature request arises.
Continuous fixes and frequent upgrade philosophy give us ease of mind for the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sensors updates lack adoption control mechanisms (continuous, automatic updates).
Periodic upgrades are not well curated, many times introducing brakes or issues.
The 1st support level is well intended but slow, many times requiring intervention by our dedicated Technical Account Management support in order to progress.
Instrumentation adoption mechanisms for cloud native infrastructures lack granularity (ALL or Opt In / Opt Out only at container level) *for now as major changes being announced.
Infrastructure monitoring and observability lacks the power of majos competitors.
SaaS Logs in Context is an extra Add-ON that is required for OpenTelemetry logs integration. At the same time, to be fair, the cost of this Add-On is cheaper compared to other third-party providers.
SaaS solution is many times affected, either by scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, making the UI experience slow.
Periodic upgrades are not well curated, many times introducing brakes or issues.
The 1st support level is well intended but slow, many times requiring intervention by our dedicated Technical Account Management support in order to progress.
Instrumentation adoption mechanisms for cloud native infrastructures lack granularity (ALL or Opt In / Opt Out only at container level) *for now as major changes being announced.
Infrastructure monitoring and observability lacks the power of majos competitors.
SaaS Logs in Context is an extra Add-ON that is required for OpenTelemetry logs integration. At the same time, to be fair, the cost of this Add-On is cheaper compared to other third-party providers.
SaaS solution is many times affected, either by scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, making the UI experience slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instana's Application Perspective is a powerful tool that enables us to observe, monitor and alert for both top level and low level aspects of our business.
Financial Services
Still developing monitoring tool
Reviewed on Jun 20, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The interface of instana is easy to use and there a lots of innovative capabilities
What do you dislike about the product?
There is lots of not fully functional capabilities and support team is useless
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alerting on when there is issues in our resources, verify application calls and data
Nayana D.
Excellent
Reviewed on Jun 03, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and helps me in monitoring, tracing and analysing
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost can grow significantly with large microservice deployments due to per-host or per-agent licensing.
UI less intuitive compared to tools like Datadog or Grafana.
UI less intuitive compared to tools like Datadog or Grafana.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Detects the slowdown in real-time (via latency and error rate).
Shows which upstream or downstream service is impacted.
Highlights that a recent deployment introduced the issue.
Sends an alert to the DevOps team via Slack + creates a ServiceNow ticket.
Shows which upstream or downstream service is impacted.
Highlights that a recent deployment introduced the issue.
Sends an alert to the DevOps team via Slack + creates a ServiceNow ticket.