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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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Consumer Electronics
A lot of potential
Reviewed on Sep 10, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
- easy to deploy
- easy to install
- support has been helpful and patient
- event detection and related automation policies (custom) do catch faults and address them very quickly
- easy to install
- support has been helpful and patient
- event detection and related automation policies (custom) do catch faults and address them very quickly
What do you dislike about the product?
Working on Instana for IBMi specifically, you can clearly tell that as far as IBMi is concerned there's still a long way to go in terms of what can be added or improved.
What you get directly from the installation is good for having a very basic monitoring, although when things get into details you can tell that it's in early stages.
IBMi is indeed special so it might require a different approach compared to other installations, although i'm sure that there will be improvements.
Unfortunately i can't tell for other platforms..
What you get directly from the installation is good for having a very basic monitoring, although when things get into details you can tell that it's in early stages.
IBMi is indeed special so it might require a different approach compared to other installations, although i'm sure that there will be improvements.
Unfortunately i can't tell for other platforms..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Re-working the monitoring solution for IBMi LPARs.
Tanmay M.
Journey with IBM instana
Reviewed on Sep 10, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I had used the IBM instana, it was great experience and the services and working approach they are using is best and I would like to say, they can explore in technical field like services, torbuleshooting steps etc. Rest part are fantastic.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hmm, sometimes due to some deep technical issue, service delayed, need to improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solved many problems with IBM instana.
1.Complex IT environment - many apps. Like jupyter notebook and grafana hard to monitor, it help to solve all these modern problem.
2. Performance issues.
3.solve lack of visibility
4.Slow troubleshooting
Benefits -
1. Full stack observability - help to monitor the gpu, cpu and nodes performance, network in single monitor
2.Automatic Discovery - Auto- detect the new services, pods, kernels no need manual coding
3.helo in root cause analysis.
4.improved user experience
5.supoort HPC workloads.
1.Complex IT environment - many apps. Like jupyter notebook and grafana hard to monitor, it help to solve all these modern problem.
2. Performance issues.
3.solve lack of visibility
4.Slow troubleshooting
Benefits -
1. Full stack observability - help to monitor the gpu, cpu and nodes performance, network in single monitor
2.Automatic Discovery - Auto- detect the new services, pods, kernels no need manual coding
3.helo in root cause analysis.
4.improved user experience
5.supoort HPC workloads.
Roushan K.
Instana! RealTime Insights Done Right
Reviewed on Sep 09, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about IBM Instana is how effortless it makes monitoring complex applications. The automatic discovery of services and dependencies saves a ton of setup time, and I don’t have to manually configure dashboards, it just maps everything out for me. The real-time visibility is also a big win; if something goes wrong, I can quickly trace the root cause without digging through endless logs. It feels very modern compared to traditional APM tools, and the UI makes it easy to navigate even when the environment is huge.
What do you dislike about the product?
there’s a lot of data and metrics, and the learning curve is steeper than some lighter monitoring tools. The pricing can also be on the higher side if you’re running it across many services. In some cases, the UI feels a bit busy, and it takes time to tune alerts so they’re meaningful and not just noise.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Instana helps me quickly identify performance bottlenecks and trace issues across microservices without digging through logs. It saves time during incidents, reduces downtime, and gives clear visibility into how different services interact , which makes troubleshooting and optimization much faster.
Gitesh P.
I can setup the ibm instana very quick
Reviewed on Sep 09, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Ibm instana setup is quite quick for me when I use this I dnt use that much of manual work to find the services it's easier for me and our sre team also you can also use dashboard in this which also impressed me like it's live of performance I can see all the performance through this
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly when I first visit the ibm instana I am little bit confused i am trying to figure out things I think it's due to the ui which is little confusing for me and I asked my team mates and all DevOps team we found the price could little bit low for little team like ours we can't afford high price sadly we can also discuss and figure out something like in IBM instana thatsome services takes much time to loading that's annoying for us it's cancelled improved for better performance
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When I introduced to ibm instana I am so eager to know what I can do with this them I setup it for my servers for monitoring them I can setup the alerts in this so I can reduce the downtime with that that's how it's benifit me
Information Technology and Services
powerfull apm tool
Reviewed on Sep 09, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
it provides real time observation across applications, infrastructures.
What do you dislike about the product?
not so much beginner friendly, and the pricing also bit more for new or small users, sometimes customization require extra technical knowledge
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it helps us to identify and resolve the application performance issue, provides end to end visiblity of services, api. and better user experience