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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.
To try Instana for free, visit this Instana AWS Marketplace listing: https://ibm.biz/aws_marketplace-instana_paygo
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/12 months |
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1 Standard Managed Virtual Server (MVS) hour | Standard: All-in-one Observability (Infrastructure, Tracing, EUM, Synthetics) | $900.00 |
1 Essentials Managed Virtual Server (MVS) hour | Essentials: Basic Observability (Infrastructure Monitoring only) | $240.00 |
Dimension | Description | Cost/unit |
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1GB Data Ingest | Billed for data ingestion exceeding the included allowance under the 'Fair Use Policy.'* | $0.25 |
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 |
1000 RU Managed Point of Presence add-on exceeding usage | Managed Point of Presence add-on exceeding usage | $12.00 |
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Automated Discovery
Auto-discovers application components, traces requests, and maps dependencies across infrastructure and application environments
Performance Monitoring
Provides 1-second granularity performance monitoring with comprehensive request tracing across full-stack environments
Technology Integration
Supports over 300 technologies with seamless integration across Kubernetes containers, micro-services, and cloud environments
Real-time Tracing
Captures 100% of all requests in real-time without sampling, ensuring complete application performance visibility
Intelligent Alerting
Offers SmartAlerts with automated root cause analysis and tailored recommendations for faster issue resolution
Observability
"Full-stack monitoring with automatic discovery and continuous tracking of AWS applications and infrastructure from code-level insights to end-user tracing"
Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
"Automatic discovery and optimization of EC2 instances across Availability Zones using CloudWatch API"
AI-Driven Analytics
"Real-time analysis of complex ecosystems and billions of events with AI-powered root cause analysis and correlation"
Runtime Application Security
"Instant detection and blocking of vulnerabilities and threats in runtime cloud applications"
Multi-Cloud Technology Support
"Native integration with Amazon EC2, Elastic Container Service, Elastic Kubernetes Service, Fargate, Lambda, and over 90 AWS technologies"
Observability Platform
Fully managed platform integrating Prometheus metrics, logs, and distributed tracing
Data Source Integration
Supports integration with over 100 external data sources including cloud monitoring systems
Open Source Technologies
Powered by Grafana Labs' open source observability software including Mimir, Loki, and Tempo
Correlation Capabilities
Native correlation between metrics, logs, and traces for comprehensive system analysis
Performance Testing
Integrated with Grafana k6 for performance and load testing capabilities
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E-Learning
High potential, but used in the worst way and resulted in a bad experience
Reviewed on Aug 06, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Somehow simple to use, with a nice tracing mechanism and easy agent installation — although the installation documentation for Kubernetes is quite poor
What do you dislike about the product?
Infrastructure monitoring, alert creation, AI alerting, and automation are available.
There is AI-based recommendation, but it lacks sufficient detail on when to act and why.
Anomaly alerting is poorly implemented and generates a lot of false positives.
Support is very poor.
There’s a lack of transparency regarding storage usage.
You can’t modify or even understand how Instana’s pre-configured alerts are set up.
Overall, it has been a very disappointing experience for me.
There is AI-based recommendation, but it lacks sufficient detail on when to act and why.
Anomaly alerting is poorly implemented and generates a lot of false positives.
Support is very poor.
There’s a lack of transparency regarding storage usage.
You can’t modify or even understand how Instana’s pre-configured alerts are set up.
Overall, it has been a very disappointing experience for me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instana gave me the ability to monitor the Kubernetes cluster and application services easily, with out-of-the-box solutions and support for custom metric generation
Piyush T.
Instana Monitoring tool Review
Reviewed on Jul 23, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use and implement on our Tomcat server, with a user-friendly UI and rich features that simplify daily monitoring. We use it frequently for real-time, AI-powered root cause analysis, helping us quickly identify issues in complex, distributed environments. Reliable customer support is readily available when needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is ease to use, nothing to dislike. One of the best in market.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instana helps us find the root cause of issues in our web application using its dashboard and alert system. It solves the problem of monitoring our services, helping us keep them efficient and reliable.
Computer Software
Instana review
Reviewed on Jul 22, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Instana is easy to set up and quickly gives clear insights with a simple interface. It's great for debugging, as you can trace calls, check logs, and spot issues fast. During load testing, real-time request tracking helps a lot. It’s reliable, easy to use, integrates well, and the support from IBM is excellent—I use it daily and it always delivers.
What do you dislike about the product?
At first, we had some trouble using Instana, but once we got familiar with it, it became very easy to use. I don't really have any dislikes to mention—it's definitely worth trying, especially for your first project. The high CPU usage used to be a challenge during debugging and load testing, but that has improved a lot recently, making the overall experience much smoother.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The best part about Instana is how it alerts me instantly if any server crosses a threshold or an API fails—even on my phone, anytime, anywhere. It helps me catch issues early, and even if support is sometimes slow, the team resolves them through updates. It’s been a big help in monitoring cloud infrastructure.
Computer & Network Security
Instana is very good software for monitoring.
Reviewed on Jul 14, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The main thing I like in the instana is that it is very easy to use. The implementation of this software is very smooth. We got the excellent customer support from the team, we use it regularly and it has lot of features.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't think that anything I dislike in IBM instant everything is good in it. The UI part is very smooth, but page reloads every time if I try to click different component of the pages. So everything is good. The UI part should be Check.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is given each and every a lot if the system have some disaster or some effect increases some limit. So every time I get the mail it is the more important thing. If I am busy with some other task I can know by checking the mail the issue with the system or the server.
Ashish T.
IBM Instana useful for monitoring server in monitoring.
Reviewed on Jul 11, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I have liked the thing IBM is providing the quality thing means they never make or feel regret for any customer. I love it because of this reason only. The in summer is very easy to use software. We can implement easily. We get excellent support from the team and I really use it frequently in a day. It has very easy to integrate.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have multiple reason to chose it. So I can't say bad features that I disliked.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It resolves my issue of the taking the server issue on priority by checking the servers UI we can know where it is failing.So it benfits me by recognising the issue in the early face only.