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Victor P.

Software Engineer (DevOps)

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/16/2019

"not yet enterprise ready"

1.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Instana?

Integrations (opsgenie, aws, grafana)

The dashboard has a very fresh look

SDK for most programming language to implement instrumentation.

out-of-the-box instrumentation for popular frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Instana?

filtering by kubernetes resources is not fully implemented.

filtering by most used aws resources, not yet available.

filtering in the infrastructure view is somewhat annoying and inconsistent between resources

aggregating (any) resources in the infra view is not straight forward.

the infrastructure view seems to play second base in the new release against the application view.

alerting stops working sometimes (dashboard and hooks).

alerting didn't respect the hooks we've set up and were showing false alarms. or alarms from other applications that had nothing to do with our alerting rules.

i've completely gave up on alerting at some point and turned it off, since all it was doing was sending false slack messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Instana:

it looks and feels like a work in progress.

I think that the product would be better in about a year or two, a lot more maturity is needed for the enterprise.

at first it looks amazing, but in practice it lacks. mostly it's not features that it lacks, but actual stability of the platform. updates usually break the product. worst off they break alarm rules, so if you count on that to ensure operation stability and have a fast response to issues you'll have surprises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

monitoring of core infrastructure on prem, cloud and applications deployed in kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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