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Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by Dev+Ops to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline. IBM Instana is available on AWS Marketplace.

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Instana automatically discovers, maps, and monitors all services and infrastructure components across on-prem and cloud, providing AI-driven application context, issue remediation to enhance IT operations. Instana’s zero-configuration dashboards help reduce toil for SRE and DevOps teams, helping them spend more innovating than troubleshooting. Its automated playbooks seamlessly address common issues and precise ML-driven alerts help manage rapid change, thereby enhancing infrastructure availability. These capabilities in help in predicting and managing IT budgets to support increase in demand during peak cycles.

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Quickly determine hot spots in your applications underlying infrastructure.

IBM Instana Demo - Large Scale Deployment View

Easily determine if regions or data centers are impacting application availability or performance.

Examine performance characteristics of individual service components and their relationships powered by AutoTrace and our Dynamic Graph (outbound links to feature documentation)

Investigate complex service interactions and uncover performance bottlenecks, cache misses, database performance, and more with our feature rich distributed tracing solution.

IBM Instana Demo - Application Perspectives

Easily find performance bottlenecks and problematic endpoints utilizing AutoTrace powered analytics for only the services which matter to you.

In this video, you’ll learn how to streamline incident investigation and remediation for DevOps and IT teams managing complex systems.

Discover how Instana simplifies website monitoring with real-time visibility, automatic issue detection, and end-to-end performance insights. Keep your site fast, reliable, and optimized for every user.

Learn how to observe and monitor GenAI workloads using IBM Instana! We’ll show you how to track performance, spot issues early, and keep your AI running smoothly all in a few easy steps.

learn how to simulate user interactions, monitor application performance, and catch issues before your customers do, all with Instana’s powerful monitoring tools.

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Kajal M.

Software Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/2/2024

"Perfect monitoring and user interface"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

The good thing is we can moniotor errors, alerts by just filtering a specific container within a time frame and the good part is it's UI.

It is best for monitoring or extracting error logs or alerts as it shows color red and green.

Can filter by endpoints so it shows only related calls.

Easy to use

Alerts for any error calls with detailed metrics and time which is very good for developer while analysing bug issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

when open any link to analyse log, then if we do back then it goes to entire back page because of which have to scroll it again till the previous call.

Sometime it is confusing to analyse because of all things are in same dashboard so unable to understand whether it is relevant error calls or data.

Some tutorials would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Instana solving and how is that benefiting you?

earlier, I had to check logs in server and it had log only for 2-5 days. because of which if any issue comes after certain days, then we were not able to analyse or have to get the logs backup by the sysadmin team which is lengthy process.

It gives detailed view of all endpoints where it got errored and why how much time taken and that just in few click.

Now tracing logs is easy as compared to server as it shows red color error means because of UI.

We can filter what we want unlike server logs where we go through whole file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Preet S.

Technical Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/25/2024

"Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring and Analysis"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

Visualization of different parameter is very insightfull and also filtering and grouping feature to breakdown analysis further for deeper understading of issues. I use instana on daily basis because it is very easy to implement custome dashboards and integration with other applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

I found little bit lagging i,e real time data is not available of cloud infrastructure. Customer care unit of IBM instana should be more robust Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/8/2025

"See every bottleneck in an app in minutes"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

Instana provides observability without complexity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

limited deployment options for the core reporting server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/20/2025

"Still developing monitoring tool"

1.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

The interface of instana is easy to use and there a lots of innovative capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

There is lots of not fully functional capabilities and support team is useless Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sneha N.

Technical Recruiter

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/30/2024

"Sharing my experience with Instana"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

i Don't have any dislikes , i honestly appreciate it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhinav C.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/9/2024

"Good APM solution for Cloud-Native and Microservices Monitoring"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

The most liked thing in IBM instana is AI driven insights which supports a lot in the process like anomalies, perform automatic root-cause analysis, and reduce alert fatigue through dynamic threshold adjustment and also the feature which allows real time monitoring even in the infrastructure level are the most liked for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

There is no such dislike about the IBM Instana but its a little hard to understand for beignners and high pricing which cannot be afford by small organisations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Instana solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM Instana effectively solves critical challenges in cloud infrastructure monitoring, IT alerting, database monitoring, and website monitoring, providing automated, real-time insight and intelligent alerting. Increased visibility into performance, productivity reduction of alert fatigue, and an improved user experience are some of the benefits derived by using Instana. These advantages enable IT and DevOps teams to maintain reliable, high-performance systems in an increasingly complex environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mehul R.

Software Engineer

Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/18/2024

"Realtime Monitoring Tool"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

It is realtime monitoring tool and support all the technology and make easier to monitor and troublshooting issue. It's proactive monitoring and faster response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

Waiting for AI integration for help high lattancy and outage issue in product.

little bit think about pricing model for startup company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Isha S.

System Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/6/2025

"Easy to use software : Instana"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

Instana is easy to use software. It is easy to implement and we get excellent support from the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

It have excellent features in it no issue withe the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashish K.

Solution Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/16/2024

"Easy to configure and use"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

Instana is very easy to configure and the features that are offered are sufficient for current needs. The integration is very easy and gives you more control on the metrics to be captured. The UI is very simple and responsive, makes it easy for frequent use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

There are no reasons to dislike, but there can be more standard dashboards available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/3/2024

"Instana gives the different level of service than other software."

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

It is ease to use. We can implement it easily. And we get the excellent support from them.And we get the logs with it easily in the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

We rarely use it in a day. We have some confusing features in it.And during the integration make it very hard,I think thik is for only one time only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.