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Review about Instana
What do you like best about the product?
Instana was easily plugged into our system, and we could create dashboards and alerts in a couple of minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It will be awesome if we could send our applicativ logs into instana to correlate events.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to detect latency, errors, or traffic drops on our system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Instana help us every day investigating productions behavior
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Best Monitoring tool used, More detailed friendly view and in-depth information
What do you like best about the product?
Instana- Filters used in monitoring details on Health, stability, and Issues are more helpful
The tool is getting more feature and options added in time help in Monitoring and controlling the project well in Development as well as Support
The tool is getting more feature and options added in time help in Monitoring and controlling the project well in Development as well as Support
What do you dislike about the product?
Not must dislike and more helpful feature are added and improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benefits: Tools shows logs and view till in-depth on various service and feature running and More UI friendly
AUTOMATIC Discovery & Monitoring - Main feature that sold Instana to us
What do you like best about the product?
Like i mentioned on the title, the automatic discovery & monitoring is the main feature that sold instana to us.
This tech is solid and reasonably thorough. It is the most helpful feature especially when you have too many different services/microservices in the ecosystem and have very limited number of humans who can configure/maintain. It feels great when your new services automatically shows up wth relevant metrics in the call tree. Analytics(Calls/Traces search) are supremely flexible, you can search your calls in your own way..For eg:You can search for calls/traces with the message routingkey and get the full call graph.
The provided call graph is thorough and also tracks rabbitmq message routes to completion with very less configuration. Integration with graphana, source code lookups, profiles, etc. .
Last but not least, the support we received from the account manager ted, was great. He was always available and provided very constructive recommendations whenever we had any hiccups with the tool. I am sure there are many other things that i can list in this section, leaving at this for brevity and time.
This tech is solid and reasonably thorough. It is the most helpful feature especially when you have too many different services/microservices in the ecosystem and have very limited number of humans who can configure/maintain. It feels great when your new services automatically shows up wth relevant metrics in the call tree. Analytics(Calls/Traces search) are supremely flexible, you can search your calls in your own way..For eg:You can search for calls/traces with the message routingkey and get the full call graph.
The provided call graph is thorough and also tracks rabbitmq message routes to completion with very less configuration. Integration with graphana, source code lookups, profiles, etc. .
Last but not least, the support we received from the account manager ted, was great. He was always available and provided very constructive recommendations whenever we had any hiccups with the tool. I am sure there are many other things that i can list in this section, leaving at this for brevity and time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Instana has matured a lot, had some bugs with user interface. I could see the instana team is working hard to improve the user interface experience and must say it has come a long way. I can understand the UX challenge especially with the sheer amount of data that are being captured.
I personally feel that the sheer volume of data available about the system is fantastic and great but it can overwhelm some initially, if they are attached so much to other APM tools.
While i like the flexible search, there were some bugs with boundary conditions like the same call would not show up if an expanded time is selected as compared to limited time frame selection. This may have been fixed, but i made a point myself to search only with as minimal timeframe as much possible of any specific event. Instana is continually improving infact probably improving everyday as I see new versions being rolled out very frequently.
Summary: Instana is not the most perfect but certainly the benefits FAR outweighs the potential flaws/limitations.
I personally feel that the sheer volume of data available about the system is fantastic and great but it can overwhelm some initially, if they are attached so much to other APM tools.
While i like the flexible search, there were some bugs with boundary conditions like the same call would not show up if an expanded time is selected as compared to limited time frame selection. This may have been fixed, but i made a point myself to search only with as minimal timeframe as much possible of any specific event. Instana is continually improving infact probably improving everyday as I see new versions being rolled out very frequently.
Summary: Instana is not the most perfect but certainly the benefits FAR outweighs the potential flaws/limitations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
production root cause analysis, errors analysis, automatic outage alerts, metrics capture integration with graphana etc.
Super tool
What do you like best about the product?
Easy of use, 0 time to maintain update the tool, stability, the interfacace is really user friendly, responsivness is also pretty great
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of sth like parmament links -> i have my own filters for checking the bugs in last few hours. When i copy deep link (which looks terrible btw. there should be some way to make it shorter) and paste it back to browser the time period is not really last 15 minutes but exactly the 15 minutes i was using the tool. So if i use it daily i need to daily after pasting the link have one more step and adjust the filter(which is also waste of resources, because i actually i do 2 searches instead of one)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Pain points in our infrastructure, the slow reponses on REST API that needs to be optimized. Memory leaks in containers. Wasted resouces (oversized containers)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Please play a bit with the tool and do a deep dive as there is many useful features that you not even know that you need.
It can make your job a lot easier.
It can make your job a lot easier.
Flexible monitoring and reasonable pricing
What do you like best about the product?
Instana offers a large variety of features at a simple, fixed pricing model. Besides the usual distributed tracing and error logging, Instana offers infrastructure monitoring, StatsD collection, web and mobile monitoring, as well as highly customizable views and alerts. Setting up an Instana agent was extremely easy (we used the Ruby on Rails / Kubernetes integration). The logging is unsampled and customizable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI has a steep learning curve if you're used to other APM software. Expect to learn a lot of new terminology and configuration options before you can set up a usable dashboard. Unlike other APM providers, Instana gives you a great deal of flexibility in how data is presented -- which is great for expert users, but novices will almost certainly be lost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Instana to monitor our infrastructure, keep track of errors, and analyze calls to identify performance bottlenecks. After just a few days of using Instana, we identified several load-balancing issues with our setup as well as multiple N+1 problems in our database queries.
Monitoring and Observability with Instana
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of Usage is very simple and the co-relation of alerts with downstream services which helps us to reduce the MTTR and improve MTTI. Also, they have very nicely managed documentation which makes the integration very easy. They have the best Automatic Root Cause Analysis of Microservices to give us a deeper insight into the complex environment that we have.
What do you dislike about the product?
We were surprised to see the dashboarding capabilities tool provides, I am sure they will build a better solution as they did for observability
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Faster MTTR
Uptime Reporting - SRE Based
Predicting Problems earlier
Operational Efficiency
Uptime Reporting - SRE Based
Predicting Problems earlier
Operational Efficiency
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If your organisation is choosing to migrate to microservices and you want to build a robust observability tool for the complex infrastructure this is the tool.
Great Product And Team That Allows My Platform To Thrive
What do you like best about the product?
The Account Manager and Product Managers are very available and easy to work with. They are eager to help and hear us for any questions, concerns, or feature requests my team has. Aside from their amazing team, the Instana product itself is great and has proven to be a critical part of our platform. The ability to debug issues and find the root causes is critical to preventing those issues in the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initially the product was difficult to navigate as there are so many features and services it provides. But documentation has since gotten much better and the Account Managers are always willing to jump on a call and help out with any questions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Instana for many different purposes. Firstly, we use it reactively when issues or bugs arise and we need to find the source. We also use it as a monitoring and alerting service so we know when our platform is having performance issues. It's vital in our platform remaining performant and available to our users.
Amazing features
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to get started with, great documentation, amazing features, prompt support.
What do you dislike about the product?
More integration features to be developed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Release Management, SLI/SLO Tracking.
Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Instana is really a turnkey product and easy to use
What do you dislike about the product?
Instana is pretty young and unknown in the IT world
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Errors, improving performances like time response, number of internal calls, etc.
Detect and react to performance issues in real time
What do you like best about the product?
- GUI is intuitive and easy to navigate
- Automatic discovery, just install the agents and start monitoring
- A bird's eye view to Kubernetes cluster
- Several available notification channel types e.g. Slack, Teams, Email
- Helpful and friendly people
- Continuous updates and new features are released often
- Automatic discovery, just install the agents and start monitoring
- A bird's eye view to Kubernetes cluster
- Several available notification channel types e.g. Slack, Teams, Email
- Helpful and friendly people
- Continuous updates and new features are released often
What do you dislike about the product?
- Sometimes it has taken very long to get a reply when submitting a support case through customer portal
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Finding the root cause of problems is much faster now
- Get insights into how your app performs and detect problems before your users do
- Get insights into how your app performs and detect problems before your users do
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