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Instana Application Incident Remediation
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Instana and GenAI
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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Support contact at https://ibm.biz/instana-support
Pricing FAQ: https://ibm.biz/instana-pricing-faq
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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"
Artificial Intelligence Analysis
Advanced AI agent that automates data analysis and accelerates root cause investigations
Telemetry Data Integration
Supports unified visibility across logs, metrics, and traces for cloud-native environments
Anomaly Detection
Real-time system anomaly detection to proactively prevent potential incidents
OpenTelemetry Compatibility
Flexible integration with OpenTelemetry standards for standardized observability pipelines
Multi-Architecture Support
Native compatibility with modern architectures including Kubernetes, serverless, and microservices environments
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Osvaldo P.
Instana
Reviewed on Oct 09, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Automated monitoring without manual configuration. Dynamic mapping of dependencies between services. Ready-to-use dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
Accurate alerts powered by machine learning. Support for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automated Full Stack Observability: Instana offers real-time monitoring with data updated every second, covering more than 300 technologies and platforms.Agentic and Generative AI: The platform incorporates artificial intelligence to accelerate incident detection, reduce false positives, and optimize application performance before it impacts the end user.Integration with IBM Middleware: It has been expanded to monitor products such as IBM MQ, WebSphere Liberty, IBM DB2, IBM App Connect Enterprise, among others. []Recognitions: In 2025, Instana was awarded the best IT infrastructure product by G2 and received the product of the year award from CRN.
satya d.
One product to provide needed visibility on AI tools
Reviewed on Oct 09, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Its easy to use and covers needed infrastructure observability for modern day AI components.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not sure if it can monitor non-IBM infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitor AI related infrastructure
Hospital & Health Care
See every bottleneck in an app in minutes
Reviewed on Oct 08, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Instana provides observability without complexity
What do you dislike about the product?
limited deployment options for the core reporting server
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
single pane of glass view of the entire journey of application functionality and performance
Christian K.
Best observability tool
Reviewed on Oct 08, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Instana is Easy to use, ease of implementation
What do you dislike about the product?
Can improve de offline desployment on IBM i
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WE gain visibility in complex environments and we can find the root cause fast
chandu R.
Middleware Engineer
Reviewed on Oct 08, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I use instana to monitor openshift containers. I like Monitoring and alerting
What do you dislike about the product?
I am trying to do POC to integrate Instana with end to end call. at present it is not supporting all technologies
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
latency issues