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Good for monitoring kubernetes cluster
What do you like best about the product?
The alarms system is very effective and easy to monitor.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user story is a little messy and sometimes gets lost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm monitoring my Kubernetes cluster with Instana, and the integration with Pagerduty is excellent.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Some alarm systems need to be reviewed. We had some alarms associated with no traffic users that weren't triggered.
APM with good kubernetes monitoring.
What do you like best about the product?
It's a visualization suitable for Kubernetes, public/private cloud and IDC.
And you can also check the detailed settings of Kubernetes.
E2E transactions are well visualized, making it easy to monitor MSA services.
And you can also check the detailed settings of Kubernetes.
E2E transactions are well visualized, making it easy to monitor MSA services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Instana cannot view code at the method level.
There is no function to view log history, extract specific values, save them as metric, and display them.
Automatic installation of DEM is not supported.
To use the AI function, you need to add Watson.
There is no function to view log history, extract specific values, save them as metric, and display them.
Automatic installation of DEM is not supported.
To use the AI function, you need to add Watson.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We efficiently checked the link between various applications in the currently deployed Kubernetes environment. We were able to separate and analyze the points of disability using INSTANA.
A highly usable APM tool
What do you like best about the product?
- easy to set up
- very customizable visualization
- easy to integrate with external messaging/alerting services
- make for kubernetes
- great support and training
- very customizable visualization
- easy to integrate with external messaging/alerting services
- make for kubernetes
- great support and training
What do you dislike about the product?
- pricing and commercial model doesn't promote scalability
- infrastructure monitoring should bring more value
- infrastructure monitoring should bring more value
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Kubernetes based application monitoring
- Microservice tracing and visibility
- Business flow monitoring
- Microservice tracing and visibility
- Business flow monitoring
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A worthy APM tool worth considering amidst the fierce competition
Great experience working with Instana
What do you like best about the product?
detailed information and visualizations, uptime and displaying issues with the application
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing I disliked about Instana is its very high CPU utilization
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Issue recurrence pattern, better visibility and application mionitoring
Good
What do you like best about the product?
I like the visual view of the entire system
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult to drill down into errors. Not always clear where to find a specific error and information on it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overall health of system
Instana is a very good tool to measure your whole platform
What do you like best about the product?
- Instana was easy to implement
- has great metrics and insight
- supports clients and servers
- works very stable
- great support
- good organized online seminars
- identifying performance problems easily
- complexity, even it is also a contra for beginners
- flexibility
- provides a great range of graphs and metrics
- Stan is great
- has great metrics and insight
- supports clients and servers
- works very stable
- great support
- good organized online seminars
- identifying performance problems easily
- complexity, even it is also a contra for beginners
- flexibility
- provides a great range of graphs and metrics
- Stan is great
What do you dislike about the product?
- instana running on a client costs some performance
- sometimes things are a little bit hard to understand
- the user interface is not very intuitive in the beginning
- complexity makes it hard for beginners
- some features we need are still in development
- sometimes things are a little bit hard to understand
- the user interface is not very intuitive in the beginning
- complexity makes it hard for beginners
- some features we need are still in development
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Instana as a tool of monitoring of our platform. We are monitoring and measuering servers and clients. It is an excellent tool to get the full overview of your plattform. We also using it to monitor and identifiying the issues in our applications. In our company, we benefited greatly from Instana and were able to analyze some things and improve our product
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Instana is a good product with great features and great flexibility and with a little more features there is still room for improvement. Especially in the Graphic User Interface there are some improvements worthy also the usage should be more intuitive to get beginners an easier entry into it. In our company, we benefited greatly from Instana and were able to analyze some things and improve our product. Also Stan, the Logo of Instana is very cool.
Monitoring tool with great detail
What do you like best about the product?
It's amazing to see how much detailed information is available in Instana. You are able to drill down on servers so monitor particular metrics.
I like the infrastructure overview a lot as well
I like the infrastructure overview a lot as well
What do you dislike about the product?
The detail makes it a bit complex when you just started to use Instana
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to find servers within a large stack that had maxed out CPU. Furthermore we could monitor the JVM metrics of particular pods in Kubernetes
Good but still has room for improvement
What do you like best about the product?
The de-facto integration with k8s makes everything so easy to set and deploy, The GUI is very intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still some features to be deployed, specially when talking about something other than k8s. Alerting and automation based on alarms must be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One platform that covers most of our needs for k8s deployments
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Cloud and / or k8s based applications
Useful tool
What do you like best about the product?
Good for seeing all my infrastructure at once.
What do you dislike about the product?
Filtering could be better to only see what I have searched for, not everything in a server that contains what I want
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring
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