Compare IBM Instana and LogRocket 
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At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (42.2% of reviews)
Small-Business (60.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $18.00
Free 1000 Sessions Per Month
IBM Instana
Star Rating
(470)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (42.2% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $18.00
Free Trial is available
Browse all 2 pricing plansLogRocket
Star Rating
(2,324)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (60.3% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free 1000 Sessions Per Month
Free Trial is available
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- G2 reviewers report that IBM Instana excels in monitoring complex environments, with users appreciating its automatic discovery and dependency mapping features, which significantly reduce the time spent on manual setup. This capability allows teams to quickly identify performance issues and understand service connections in real-time.
- Users say LogRocket shines in its user session tracking, allowing teams to easily browse through sessions organized by time and user name. Reviewers highlight the ability to record 'anonymous' sessions for ghost users, which provides valuable insights into user behavior without compromising privacy.
- According to verified reviews, IBM Instana has a higher overall satisfaction score, reflecting its robust performance monitoring capabilities. Users commend its real-time insights that help in swiftly detecting and resolving issues, making it a reliable choice for teams focused on application performance.
- Reviewers mention that LogRocket is particularly appealing for small businesses due to its free entry-level plan, making it easy to set up in any project. This accessibility allows startups to track user interactions and identify critical errors without upfront costs.
- G2 reviewers highlight that while both products offer good support, LogRocket tends to receive slightly higher marks for its ease of setup and administration, with users noting that it is straightforward to integrate into existing projects, which is crucial for teams with limited resources.
- Users report that IBM Instana's advanced features, such as cloud observability and performance analysis, provide a comprehensive view of application health, which is essential for larger organizations managing complex systems. This level of detail is often cited as a key differentiator for teams needing in-depth monitoring capabilities.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
IBM Instana
Essentials
Starting at $18.00
Automatic discovery, mapping and monitoring of Infrastructure
- Includes All Infrastructure Monitoring Features
- Includes End User Monitoring
- Includes Unbounded Analytics
LogRocket
FREE FOREVER
Free
1000 Sessions Per Month
- Core LogRocket features
- 3 seats
- 1-month data retention
Free Trial
IBM Instana
Free Trial is available
LogRocket
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.6
352
8.9
2,053
Ease of Use
8.6
366
8.7
2,093
Ease of Setup
8.8
204
9.0
1,124
Ease of Admin
8.4
129
9.1
678
Quality of Support
8.6
317
8.9
1,311
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
129
9.1
594
Product Direction (% positive)
8.5
337
8.9
2,011
Features by Category
Metrics
Not enough data
8.9
331
Not enough data
8.5
306
Not enough data
8.2
293
Not enough data
8.7
307
Not enough data
8.4
291
Not enough data
7.9
272
Not enough data
8.0
261
Not enough data
8.0
259
Not enough data
8.0
266
Reporting
Not enough data
8.6
307
Not enough data
8.0
273
Not enough data
8.0
276
Not enough data
7.9
269
Not enough data
7.8
258
Not enough data
8.1
259
Not enough data
8.3
276
Other
Not enough data
8.5
279
Not enough data
8.1
252
Not enough data
8.3
260
Not enough data
7.7
230
Not enough data
7.3
153
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.8
233
Agentic AI - Digital Analytics
Not enough data
7.2
18
Not enough data
6.8
18
Not enough data
6.8
18
Not enough data
6.9
18
Administration
Not enough data
8.2
321
Not enough data
8.3
314
Not enough data
8.7
362
Not enough data
8.3
343
User Behavior
Not enough data
8.9
1235
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
1205
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.0
1111
|
Verified
A/B Testing
Not enough data
8.5
1200
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.0
856
Not enough data
7.8
994
Not enough data
7.1
863
|
Verified
Visitor Information
Not enough data
8.7
1252
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.3
1216
Agentic AI - Session Replay
Not enough data
7.1
153
Product Analytics
Not enough data
7.7
368
Not enough data
8.3
407
Not enough data
7.5
372
Not enough data
7.5
364
Not enough data
7.2
362
Not enough data
7.3
340
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.5
355
Agentic AI - Product Analytics
Not enough data
6.2
41
Not enough data
6.0
41
Not enough data
6.4
40
Not enough data
6.2
41
Behavioral Analytics - Product Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Platform Infrastructure - Product Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI driven optimization - Product Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
9.2
20
Not enough data
9.4
20
Not enough data
9.3
20
Not enough data
9.2
19
Not enough data
9.3
19
Not enough data
8.8
18
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Experience
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
9.4
13
Not enough data
8.8
13
Not enough data
8.7
13
Not enough data
8.6
13
Not enough data
8.8
12
Not enough data
8.5
13
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.9
131
Not enough data
8.4
121
Not enough data
8.9
129
Not enough data
8.7
133
Not enough data
9.7
6
Not enough data
Administration
8.6
126
Not enough data
8.7
104
Not enough data
8.5
100
Not enough data
9.4
6
Not enough data
Analysis
8.5
114
Not enough data
8.5
131
Not enough data
8.3
99
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Bug Reporting
Not enough data
8.0
776
Not enough data
7.8
730
Not enough data
7.6
724
Bug Monitoring
Not enough data
8.4
844
Not enough data
8.5
874
Not enough data
7.8
841
Agentic AI - Bug Tracking
Not enough data
6.8
63
Not enough data
6.9
63
Not enough data
6.9
61
Functionality
8.7
27
Not enough data
8.4
25
Not enough data
9.0
34
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
9.1
34
Not enough data
8.9
32
Not enough data
8.7
33
Not enough data
Management
9.0
33
Not enough data
8.9
33
Not enough data
8.7
30
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
7.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
7.7
5
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Hardware Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
9.7
6
Not enough data
9.2
6
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
7.8
6
Not enough data
7.2
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Cloud environment support
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
10.0
6
Not enough data
10.0
6
Not enough data
10.0
6
Not enough data
9.7
6
Not enough data
Management
10.0
6
Not enough data
10.0
6
Not enough data
10.0
6
Not enough data
10.0
6
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.5
165
8.3
380
8.7
178
8.5
393
8.9
180
8.6
396
7.6
125
7.4
333
8.5
161
8.0
337
Response
8.6
174
8.6
416
8.4
168
8.2
369
8.2
159
8.1
371
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
7.0
10
6.9
12
8.3
12
6.1
12
7.3
10
6.5
12
7.3
10
6.5
12
7.4
11
7.1
13
Performance
8.3
141
8.7
389
8.4
154
8.2
358
Functionality
8.1
133
7.9
329
8.4
131
Feature Not Available
8.2
130
Feature Not Available
8.5
153
7.7
320
Alerts management
8.1
40
Not enough data
8.1
44
Not enough data
8.4
56
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.3
56
Not enough data
8.8
61
Not enough data
8.2
56
Not enough data
8.9
55
Not enough data
Automation
7.9
35
Not enough data
7.9
37
Not enough data
Analysis
8.2
54
Not enough data
8.1
45
Not enough data
8.6
60
Not enough data
8.5
41
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
8.5
52
Not enough data
7.6
44
Not enough data
8.2
46
Not enough data
Generative AI
8.7
10
Not enough data
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Observability Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Features - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Heatmap Tools
Not enough data
6.9
17
Not enough data
7.5
17
Not enough data
7.1
16
Not enough data
7.0
16
Not enough data
7.6
15
Not enough data
7.3
16
Analysis
Not enough data
7.8
193
Not enough data
8.0
191
Not enough data
7.7
186
Not enough data
7.9
189
Not enough data
8.3
198
Reporting
Not enough data
8.5
213
Not enough data
9.4
222
Not enough data
8.9
205
Not enough data
8.0
195
Response
9.0
8
Not enough data
8.6
7
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
8.6
7
Not enough data
Records
9.0
7
Not enough data
9.0
7
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
Management
9.4
6
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
Generative AI
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
Variation Testing
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.8
79
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Reporting
Not enough data
8.0
153
Not enough data
8.3
159
Personalization
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.3
125
Administration
Not enough data
8.5
132
Not enough data
8.6
129
Not enough data
8.8
140
Not enough data
8.6
134
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
IBM Instana and LogRocket are categorized as Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Unique Categories
IBM Instana is categorized as Observability Software, Enterprise Monitoring, Hardware Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Database Monitoring, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, IT Alerting, Container Monitoring, Incident Response, Log Monitoring, Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), and Server Monitoring
LogRocket is categorized as Product Analytics, Session Replay, Digital Analytics, Mobile App Optimization, Heatmap Tools, and Bug Tracking
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
IBM Instana
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
LogRocket
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
19.6%
Computer Software
10.9%
Financial Services
6.4%
Telecommunications
6.1%
Retail
5.4%
Other
51.5%
Computer Software
28.7%
Information Technology and Services
13.0%
Financial Services
11.1%
Marketing and Advertising
2.5%
Insurance
2.3%
Other
42.4%
Discussions
why use instana over another platform?
2 Comments
OG
If you compare those 2 only the price matters. Instana does not have the feature set of DataDog in any category.Read more
Is there a chatbot available?
2 Comments
OG
Best join a webinar or customer demo to learn more about it. It took me also a while to understand all the bits and pieces. Since IBM was acquired by IBM,...Read more
What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?
2 Comments
TS
Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry...Read more
Is there a way to initialize Logrocket to update the user's name?
3 Comments
BB
Yes, you can do this:
LogRocket.identify(username, {
name,
email: username,
});Read more
What is LogRocket used for?
2 Comments
Official Response from LogRocket
LogRocket’s AI-powered platform helps its 3,000+ global customers provide an optimal user experience every time.
What is LogRocket?: LogRocket is an...Read more
How could I use session recording within an automated selenium test to generate user manuals?
1 Comment
LD
question
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