IBM Instana Features
Response (7)
Resolution Automation
Diagnose and resolve incidents without the need for human interaction.
Resolution Guidance
Guide users through the resolution process and give specific instructions to remedy individual occurrences.
System Isolation
Cuts off network connection or temporarily inactivate applications until incidents are remedied.
Threat Intelligence
Gathers information related to threats in order to gain further information on remedies.
Dashboards and Visualization
Based on 169 IBM Instana reviews.
Incident Alerting
As reported in 165 IBM Instana reviews.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
154 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Records (3)
Incident Logs
Information on each incident is stored in databases for user reference and analytics.
Incident Reports
Produces reports detailing trends and vulnerabilities related to their network and infrastructure.
Resource Usage
Analyzes recurring incidents and remedies to ensure optimal resource usage.
Management (13)
Incident Alerts
Gives alerts when incidents arise. Some responses may be automated, but users will still be informed.
Database Management
Adminstrators can access and organize data related to incidents to produce reports or make data more navigable.
Workflow Management
Administrators can organize workflows to guide remedies to specific situations incident types.
Content Management
Monitors web-content ensuring all assets and resources are displayed as intended, alerting administrators as issues arise.
Alerts
Alert over email, text, phone call, or more to multiple parties.
Budget Analysis
Provides information related to unnecessary spending and unused resources relating to their digital offerings.
System Integration
Integrates with a variety of IT systems. This feature was mentioned in 33 IBM Instana reviews.
Alerting
Automatically alerts necessary parties via email, text, or call when issues are identified. 33 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Reporting
Generate sreports and dashboards highlighting trends and key metrics around issues and issue resolution. 30 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Single Pane of Glass
Consolidate IT systems monitoring overviews to a single pane for quick insights.
Dashboards and Visualization
Offer pre-built and custom reporting and dashboards for quick insights into system states.
Performance Baselines
Set expected baselines for system functions.
Alerting
Create and distribute detailed alerts via email, phone, and messaging for potential and active failures and errors.
Functionality (23)
Baseline
As reported in 20 IBM Instana reviews. Sets and allows adjustment of website baseline functionality and configuration.
Alerting
Based on 20 IBM Instana reviews. Generates alerts for whenever a website goes down, experiences an error, makes a major change, or other events.
Multi-Site Monitoring
Monitor multiple websites at once, organizing them with dashboards. This feature was mentioned in 20 IBM Instana reviews.
Reporting
Based on 19 IBM Instana reviews. Generate reports manually or automatically about website performance.
Multi-Channel Alerting
As reported in 19 IBM Instana reviews. Alert over email, text, phone call, and more to multiple parties.
Location Insights
As reported in 18 IBM Instana reviews. Isolate geographic locations where website functionality is best and worst.
Monitoring
Monitors database functionality to verify baselines are maintained or exceeded. This feature was mentioned in 13 IBM Instana reviews.
Alerting
As reported in 13 IBM Instana reviews. Sends alerts via email, text, phone, and more when an incident or issue occcurs.
Logging
Captures logs for all database functions to garner greater information around issues or failures. This feature was mentioned in 13 IBM Instana reviews.
Response Time
Monitors database query time for unusual execution times 13 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Reporting
Manually and/or automatically generates reports covering database performance 12 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Data Visualization
Based on 13 IBM Instana reviews. Follows database monitoring live information through graphical dashboards
Artificial Intelligence
Utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze big data. This feature was mentioned in 27 IBM Instana reviews.
Machine Learning
Based on 25 IBM Instana reviews. Utilizes machine learning to analyze big data.
Systems Monitoring
As reported in 34 IBM Instana reviews. Monitors logs and activities from a wide range of IT systems.
Diverse Systems Monitoring
Monitor usage and activity on a diverse array of IT systems, e.g., servers, databases, and networks.
Real-Time Analytics
Generate real-time high-level and/or in-depth analytics regarding monitored systems activity.
Observability
Generate insights into IT systems utilizing event metrics, logging, traces, and metadata.
AI/ML Integration
Integrate AI and/or machine learning capabilities to identify and address potential and active failures and errors.
Synthetic Monitoring
As reported in 133 IBM Instana reviews. Monitors and test apps to address issues before they affect end users.
Dynamic Transaction Mapping
As reported in 128 IBM Instana reviews. Provides dynamic end-to-end maps of every single transaction.
Load Balancing
Based on 130 IBM Instana reviews. Automatically adjusts resources base on application usage.
Cloud Observability
Monitors cloud microservices, containers, kubernetes, and other cloud native software. This feature was mentioned in 149 IBM Instana reviews.
Experience (3)
Real-Time Monitoring
Provides users with real-time information on how individuals are using accessibility accomodation tools to interact with the site or application.
Session Replay
Tracks application and infrastructure resource needs and alerts administrators or automatically scales usage to minimize waste.
Behavioral Analysis
Allow administrators to gain valuable insights related to end-user behavior.
Performance (6)
Uptime Monitoring
Generates alerts for whenever a website or application goes down, experiences an error, makes a major change, or other events.
Performance Monitoring
Provides tools to track and measure application or website performance.
Issue Tracking
Track problems and manage resolutions related to end-user experience issues.
Resource Monitoring
Tracks infrastructure resource needs and alerts administrators or automatically scales usage to minimize waste.
Real User Monitoring (RUM)
As reported in 139 IBM Instana reviews. Captures and analyzes each transaction by users of a website or application in real time.
Second by Second Metrics
Provides high-frequency metrics data. This feature was mentioned in 154 IBM Instana reviews.
Monitoring (14)
Usage Monitoring
As reported in 131 IBM Instana reviews. Tracks infrastructure resource needs and alerts administrators or automatically scales usage to minimize waste.
Database Monitoring
Monitors performance and statistics related to memory, caches and connections. 121 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
API Monitoring
Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering. This feature was mentioned in 129 IBM Instana reviews.
Real-Time Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time. 133 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Security and Compliance Monitoring
Enables monitoring of security and compliance standards across cloud infrastructure.
Performance Baselines
This feature was mentioned in 164 IBM Instana reviews.
Performance Analysis
175 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Performance Monitoring
As reported in 174 IBM Instana reviews.
AI/ML Assistance
123 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Multi-System Monitoring
Based on 157 IBM Instana reviews.
Resource utilization
Based on 56 IBM Instana reviews. Optimizes resource allocation.
Real-time monitoring
Consistently monitors processes for applications and IT infrastructure to detect anomalies in real-time. 61 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Performance baseline
Based on 56 IBM Instana reviews. Sets up standard performance baseline to compare live container activities.
API monitoring
Traces connections between different containerized environments and detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering. 55 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Administration (4)
Activity Monitoring
Actively monitor status of work stations either on-premise or remote. This feature was mentioned in 126 IBM Instana reviews.
Multi-Cloud Management
As reported in 104 IBM Instana reviews. Allows users to track and control cloud spend across cloud services and providers.
Automation
Efficiently scales resource usage to optimize spend whith increased or decreased resource usage requirements. This feature was mentioned in 100 IBM Instana reviews.
Auto-Scaling & Resource Optimization
Automatically scales resources based on demand and optimizes for performance and cost.
Analysis (7)
Reporting
As reported in 114 IBM Instana reviews. Creates reports outlining resource, underutilization, cost trends, and/or functional overlap.
Dashboards and Visualizations
Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way. This feature was mentioned in 131 IBM Instana reviews.
Spend Forecasting and Optimization
Ability to project spend based on contracts, usage trends, and predicted growth. This feature was mentioned in 99 IBM Instana reviews.
Search
As reported in 54 IBM Instana reviews. Allows users to search logs for troubleshooting and open-ended exploration of data.
Reporting
Based on 45 IBM Instana reviews. Creates reports outlining resource, underutilization, cost trends, and/or functional overlap.
Visualization
Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way. This feature was mentioned in 60 IBM Instana reviews.
Track trends
Allows users to track log trends. 41 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Issue Resolution (6)
Root Cause Identification
As reported in 34 IBM Instana reviews. Directly identifies, or increases identification speed for, root causes for IT system issues.
Proactive Identification
Based on 32 IBM Instana reviews. Proactively identifies trends on IT systems that could lead to failures or errors.
Resolution Guidance
Provides paths, suggestions, or other general assistance towards issue resolution. This feature was mentioned in 33 IBM Instana reviews.
Root cause identification
Based on 52 IBM Instana reviews. Directly identifies, or increases identification speed for, root causes for container issues.
Resolution guidance
Provides paths, suggestions, or other general assistance towards issue resolution. This feature was mentioned in 44 IBM Instana reviews.
Proactive identification
Based on 46 IBM Instana reviews. Proactively identifies trends on container systems that could lead to failures or errors.
Visibility (6)
Dashboards and Visualizations
Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way.
Alerts and Notifications
Clearly notifies users with relevant information and anomalies in a timely manner.
Reporting
Creates reports outlining performance and other relevant metrics.
Dashboards and Visualizations
Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way.
Alerts and Notifications
Clearly notifies users with relevant information and anomalies in a timely manner.
Reporting
Creates reports outlining log activity and relevant metrics.
Monitoring and Management (13)
Multi-Device Management
Allows users to track and control resource allocation across multiple devices.
Automation
Automatically allocates resources to optimize loads across devices.
Performance Baseline
Sets a standard performance baseline by which to compare live hardware metrics.
Real-Time Monitoring
Constantly monitors hardware to detect anomalies in real time.
Automation
Automatically allocates resources to address log anomalies.
Performance Baseline
Sets a standard performance baseline by which to compare log activity.
Real-Time Monitoring
Constantly monitors logs to detect anomalies in real time.
Multi-Server Management
Allows users to track and control resource spend and loads across multiple servers.
Automation
Automatically allocates resources to optimize loads across servers.
Performance Baseline
Sets a standard performance baseline by which to compare live server activity.
Real-Time Monitoring
Constantly monitors server to detect anomalies in real time.
Immediate Alert Notification
Ability of the monitoring software to immediately alert the user in case of any issue.
Proactive Server Monitoring Software
Deploys remedial actions proactively. If this measure fails, then the user is alerted.
Visibility (3)
Dashboards and Visualizations
Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way.
Alerts and Notifications
Clearly notifies team members with relevant information and anomalies in a timely manner.
Reporting
Creates reports outlining load distribution, performance and other relevant metrics.
Cloud environment support (2)
Server Monitoring For Cloud Deployments
Supports public, hybrid and private cloud environments.
Software Scaling
Software can scale as the enterprises adds more servers to their portfolio virtually.
Alerts management (3)
Multi-mode alerts
As reported in 40 IBM Instana reviews. Alerts over email, text, phone call, or more to multiple parties.
Opimization alerts
As reported in 44 IBM Instana reviews. Provides information related to unnecessary spending and unused resources.
Incident alerts
Gives alerts when incidents arise. 56 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Automation (2)
Resolution automation
As reported in 35 IBM Instana reviews. Diagnoses and resolves incidents without the need for human interaction.
Automation
Based on 37 IBM Instana reviews. Efficiently scales resource usage to optimize spend whith increased or decreased resource usage requirements.
Generative AI (5)
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt. 10 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability (2)
Multi-Telemetry Ingestion
Ingests and processes multiple telemetry types, such as logs, metrics, and traces.
OpenTelemetry Support
Supports ingestion and standardization of observability data via OpenTelemetry protocol.
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability (3)
Service Dependency Mapping
Displays relationships between services to visualize system dependencies.
Unified Dashboard
Provides a consolidated view of system-wide telemetry in a single dashboard.
Trace Visualization
Allows users to explore and visualize distributed traces and span relationships.
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability (3)
Cross-Telemetry Correlation
Correlates logs, metrics, and traces to surface performance patterns and root causes.
Root Cause Detection
Identifies likely causes of issues using system insights and correlation logic.
Intelligent Alerting
Automatically alerts users to anomalies or critical events using contextual data.
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability (2)
Kubernetes Monitoring
Provides observability into containerized workloads and Kubernetes clusters.
Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Support
Enables observability across public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem environments.
AI Features - Observability (3)
Predictive Insights
Forecasts future system issues based on historical performance trends.
AI-Generated Incident Summaries
Summarizes incident root causes and potential fixes using generative AI.
AI Anomaly Detection
Uses machine learning to detect unusual behavior across telemetry data.
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (5)
Autonomous Task Execution
Based on 10 IBM Instana reviews. Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases 10 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience 10 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature.
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting This feature was mentioned in 10 IBM Instana reviews.
Decision Making
As reported in 10 IBM Instana reviews. Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - IT Alerting (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Website Monitoring (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring (6)
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Hardware Monitoring (4)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring (2)
AI-Powered Anomaly Detection
Utilizes machine learning to automatically detect and alert on unusual patterns in infrastructure metrics.
AI-Driven Insight Recommendations
Provides AI-generated insights and actionable recommendations to optimize resource performance and cost.
Agentic AI - Observability Software (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives





