Instana
What is Instana?
Monitor any application, service, or request with Instana Application Performance Monitoring.
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
87 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+89 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Instana?
Pros
- Over Delivered
- Respectful
- Client's Interest First
- Transparent
Feature Ratings
Enterprise Cloud Platform Support
Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment
Transaction Request Performance
Domain-Agnostic AI/ML
Non-Commodity Operating Systems
Domain-Centric AI/ML
Automated Diagnostics
Application Discovery
Scalability
Server Monitoring
Dependency Tracking
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Customization
Quality of Features
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Vendor Support
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Instana Reviews

Bilal A.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2022
Instana - Real time APM
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Instana from other similar products?
Instana APM (Application Performance Manager) attains or records application performance real time.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of the product/software is real time attainment of application performance measures.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There may be some problems in integration with environments supporting Docks.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
My only recommendation to anyone looking for a APM for this product will be that the p[product is overall fantastic ion terms of its features and pricing models however you need certain training or insight to run the product to its full capacity and your own requirements.
Pros
- Fair
- Acts with Integrity
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product

martin w.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Transportation
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2022
Gladiator with database monitoring & reporting.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Instana from other similar products?
Am overly impressed with their training our developers. Real-time observance of our servers which is 24/7 and cloud based. Efficient intergration with slack for notifications and reminders. Incredible with monitoring any anomaly with our Database and act quickly to avoid escalation.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's a magnificent with data visualization which is collected from different sources. Cloud based monitoring of data which is automatic and always available. Reports on logs which makes troubleshooting easy. Massive boost to improve operations.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's a great software although requires some training to use at first.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Yes very straightforward with cloud based and real-time monitoring of our database. The training is smooth for the development teams. Incredible to monitor activity of our database. Clean dashboard.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Gal L.
- Role: C Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2022
Frictionless integration with high added value.A++
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Instana from other similar products?
- Most simple integration - start in less than a min - Automatic discovery - Great Application & Infrastructure visibility - Amazingly connect between transactions and infrastructure - Simple and affordable pricing
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Low TCO and excellent connection between Application and Infrastructure
What do you dislike most about this product?
logging support could be increased to more than just error log monitoring
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Just try it - it will take you less than a min to have full discovery.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy