IBM Instana Observability (contract)
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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.
Great Application Performance Monitoring Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Instana keeps getting better. I really like the new AI-powered incident investigation—it saves a lot of time by pinpointing issues fast. The real-time tracing and smart dashboards make monitoring feel effortless. Great tool for keeping complex cloud setups in check.
What do you dislike about the product?
Instana is still super easy to use and the docs are great. If anything, a quick walkthrough or guided setup for first-time users would make the start even smoother.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us in monitoring the IT incidents and service requests very effectienly and also helps us in alerting customers in the scenarios of downtime or utilizations etc. It also gives insights of customer's cloud infrastructure.
Great Observalibity tool
What do you like best about the product?
AI centric Observalibility at its best which predicts lot of real time issues upfront and gives a great heads up in fixing the problems that occurs in typical production environment with lots of challenges
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing much that i see as dislikes, their AI centric approach makes the product excellent
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Log analysis & Potential Problems in infra & deployments & profiling features in API calls, & great remeidation automation which can be injected to reduce common problems with systems.
Quick finding of the production problem.
What do you like best about the product?
Verfication of memory and finding the problemetic areais what I like the most helpful
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much to complaint on the instana,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helped me to find out the memory issue with the application, This helped to fix production problem which we saw.
IBM INSTANA Monitor tool usage feedback
What do you like best about the product?
It's quite easy to install and configure and its pulling lot of information from single agent
What do you dislike about the product?
We need more handson to understand the functionality
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Installation of agent with proxy server makes complex
An overall great tool for the engineering team
What do you like best about the product?
Where do I even start. There's so much to explore and make use of. I've only probably used like 30% of what this tool has to offer. And I do this very easily with it:
1. See critical incidents, set up alerts, analyze all other services' states in the range of time in which an incident occurred
2. Amazing log analysis, infra ingress and egress monitoring, filtering, aggregation, code flows, super detailed drill down of API calls down to the last DB call and finding bottlenecks
3. amazing filtering options. I only use like 3-4 but even with them it's so easy to pinpoint to a time and app state that I want to see.
4. love the short url shortcut so much - it's a very small thing, but very useful when needing to share 10s of such links per debugging session. more apps should generate short links because nobody likes to see the whole query in a link.
5. if you're new to a company, it's a great tool for practically understanding the infra setup and monitor the innards using the amazing dashboard with its range selection that can be highligted across all services' charts in real time, to help you pinpoint problems even more easily.
1. See critical incidents, set up alerts, analyze all other services' states in the range of time in which an incident occurred
2. Amazing log analysis, infra ingress and egress monitoring, filtering, aggregation, code flows, super detailed drill down of API calls down to the last DB call and finding bottlenecks
3. amazing filtering options. I only use like 3-4 but even with them it's so easy to pinpoint to a time and app state that I want to see.
4. love the short url shortcut so much - it's a very small thing, but very useful when needing to share 10s of such links per debugging session. more apps should generate short links because nobody likes to see the whole query in a link.
5. if you're new to a company, it's a great tool for practically understanding the infra setup and monitor the innards using the amazing dashboard with its range selection that can be highligted across all services' charts in real time, to help you pinpoint problems even more easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
If I google instana, there's no link I can open from the website that I can login to my company's account from. this makes it hard to login - i have to keep my company's login url handy.
I wish there were a way to check POST bod- that would making debugging easier
I think that's about it. Not much to dislike.
I wish there were a way to check POST bod- that would making debugging easier
I think that's about it. Not much to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
monitoring CIs by setting up alerts and using dashboards
analyzing logs for debugging issues and infra issues
monitoring infra health using dashboards
monitoring specific parts of the app for a temporary time
learning infra layout
analyzing logs for debugging issues and infra issues
monitoring infra health using dashboards
monitoring specific parts of the app for a temporary time
learning infra layout
Instana aka great platform
What do you like best about the product?
Monitoring and tracking requests are so precise, also comfortable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing yet discovered from my side, but automatic support for golang microservices would be better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Erroneous call rates error detection a second-grade precision.
Useful tool to monitor environment
What do you like best about the product?
Easily to understand, detailed, and user-friendly ways to control your environments. One of my preferred tools to work
What do you dislike about the product?
No comments, I really like it. In my company is one of the tools that is more used
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When identifying an incident, is easy to identify what could be the issue and also to see if there was a problem with some deployments, you can also have an overview
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