IBM Instana Observability (contract)
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Optimizing Application Performance with IBM Instana: A User's Perspective
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Instana is its real-time, full-stack monitoring and automatic instrumentation, which makes it easy to set up and provides comprehensive visibility across complex, dynamic environments. The platform's intuitive user interface and smart alerting system are also standout features, making it easier to quickly identify and resolve performance issues. In my project , I frequently use instana for monitoring the services and the customer support also response quickely and positively.
What do you dislike about the product?
A common dislike about Instana is its pricing, which can be high for smaller organizations or those with extensive monitoring needs. Some users also find the platform has a learning curve, especially for those new to APM tools or working in less complex environments. Additionally, while it provides comprehensive monitoring, some advanced customization options might be limited compared to other tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped me out to solve outage problem by monitoring system and effected services.
A perfect Monitoring Application
What do you like best about the product?
Previously I used to check the logs and all in the server which is very hard to analyze and a lengthy but now it is very easy for me to analyze any issue using instana
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing to dislike about instana as it is the best application i have used till now
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Previously I used to check logs in putty in server which is very difficult but now instana made it easy for me now to analyze my application logs and performance
Sharing my experience with Instana
What do you like best about the product?
The software stands out due to its ease of use, which simplifies user interaction and reduces the learning curve. Its ease of implementation ensures a smooth initial setup, while the ease of integration allows it to seamlessly connect with existing systems. Frequent use is supported by its extensive number of features, which cater to diverse needs, and the high-quality customer support enhances the overall experience, addressing issues promptly and effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
i Don't have any dislikes , i honestly appreciate it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Firstly it has a very good application performance and monitoring of website. It is easy to understand and learn quickly. Currently we are using this application to know about the letency of application production and the speed of IT alerting, incident response.
My Review on Instana
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Instana is playing Key role in my Current project it has Good Ease of use, Ease of Implementation during Monitoring the various websites, It is also supporting to me to give wide range of support for customers while resolving the queries, It also has wide number of features for good ease of integration while doing migration activities and deployments. It is having high frequency of use because of its optimistic features.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a support executive, I find that while IBM Instana offers powerful features, it can be complex for us to set up, and it has some high pricing for consumption, its data consumption also make it challenging to focus on critical issues, while deployments or during migration activities it is complex to monitor the websites and nods and solving the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Instana is playing key role while working for my current project. It is very useful for me in monitoring incidents that are occurs in the various activities ,it also helpful for while working with Database, also generates alerts for whenever a website goes down, whenever experiences an error, or other events Monitor multiple websites at once, organizing them with dashboards. It plays a key role in generating report s while setting jobs in reporting team, it also highlights and monitors various APIs or websites without having major issues and also provide alerts while generating major deployments or migration activities.
It is best source for reviewing cpu utilizations and easy to access and analyze the issues.
What do you like best about the product?
The features and it is very helpful to analyze and trouble shoot.It provides Automated application performance monitoring which is very helpful and easy to use. We have got excellent customer support.We use it frequently. We can integrate it easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance issues when multple users are using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This is helpful for Monitoring the issues . Gives alerts more than the thresholds. And we are able to avoid the outage.
Easy to analyze system
What do you like best about the product?
IBM instana is very helpful for server monitoring and geting the insights of the server and application. We can identify the problem in the very short time. And the system is easy to use. It is easy to implement.Customer support is quiet better than other company. we use it in the frequently. It is ease of integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't think there is any drawbacks are there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is solving the lot of problems i.e getting the insights of the server, graph of the alerts.
Great Product
What do you like best about the product?
Instana is very good ,gives analysis about different services different calls in services, error related logs and many more.
What do you dislike about the product?
The ui is little bit complex to navigate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is solving the problem of monitoring our services so that we can make our services efficient.
Impressive and game changer!
What do you like best about the product?
Instana is really straight-forward regarding configuration: you just need to install the agent in a node level and it is done. The main point that made Instana our choice is that it was the only solution that fit to our product scale, considering that its price is based on how many nodes do you have in your cluster, and not in how many pods do you have. I am really satisfied with all the features it have delivered us and also with the improvement it has brought to our troubleshooting.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing is that you need to think in a annual scaling when considering to use Instana. The pricing is calculated in a annual basis, so you need to consider your cost forecast and architecture sizing in order to invest properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CPU and Memory overflow and application calls tracing. By using it, we were able to make a better root cause analysis in some performance problems we had.
I was amazed by looking at the features of IBM Instana
What do you like best about the product?
deep down tracking of the real time issues and tracing part.
What do you dislike about the product?
I want to see more about security related updates to be competative in the market with other products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In my environment, our applicaiton is a big enterprise applicaiton with lots of intergrations with mesaging queue and web services.
IBM Instana providing me the end-to end application level tracing to find the exact problems. Garbage collection level monitoring also very helpful for me.
IBM Instana providing me the end-to end application level tracing to find the exact problems. Garbage collection level monitoring also very helpful for me.
Great tool for real time analytics
What do you like best about the product?
Enables proactive monitoring and faster response to potential problems, minimizing downtime.
What do you dislike about the product?
nitial complexity might require additional time and training for teams to fully exploit the platform's capabilities.
Depending on the scale of the deployment, the cost may become a significant factor for some users.
Depending on the scale of the deployment, the cost may become a significant factor for some users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problem: In modern applications built using microservices architecture, monitoring each service individually and understanding their interactions can be complex and challenging.
Solution: Instana provides automatic discovery and mapping of microservices, offering visibility into the entire application stack. This simplifies monitoring and troubleshooting in microservices-based environments.
Solution: Instana provides automatic discovery and mapping of microservices, offering visibility into the entire application stack. This simplifies monitoring and troubleshooting in microservices-based environments.
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