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Instana

8.6 / 10
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What is Instana?

Monitor any application, service, or request with Instana Application Performance Monitoring.

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Instana Ratings

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?

0% Negative
18% Neutral
82% Positive

Pros

  • Over Delivered
  • Respectful
  • Client's Interest First
  • Transparent

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

90

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

90

Transaction Request Performance

90

Domain-Agnostic AI/ML

89

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

87

Domain-Centric AI/ML

86

Automated Diagnostics

84

Application Discovery

84

Scalability

84

Server Monitoring

84

Dependency Tracking

84

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of Data Integration

92

Ease of IT Administration

90

Ease of Implementation

89

Usability and Intuitiveness

88

Availability and Quality of Training

81

Ease of Customization

80

Quality of Features

80

Business Value Created

80

Breadth of Features

79

Vendor Support

79

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

78

Instana Reviews

Bilal A.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Instana - Real time APM

Likeliness to Recommend

7 / 10

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
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Gladiator with database monitoring & reporting.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 / 10

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
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Frictionless integration with high added value.A++

Likeliness to Recommend

10 / 10

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