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Instana

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What is Instana?

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

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Awards & Recognition

Instana won the following awards in the Application Performance Management - Enterprise category

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2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

4 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

Instana Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 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

10% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Trustworthy
Enables Productivity
Client Friendly Policies
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Transaction Request Performance

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Domain-Agnostic AI/ML

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Server Monitoring

Automated Diagnostics

Application Metric Reporting

Error Reporting

Scalability

Application Request Tracing

Application Discovery

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Instana Reviews

Mallayasamy k.

Role: Operations
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2022

Good Tool for Kubernetes platform

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Instana from other similar products?

One of the best tool for new architecture platform and able to identified the issues for all micro service level and other services like solr, third party tool etc

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Erroneous Calls Rate graph can able to identified the over all of the issues

What do you dislike most about this product?

some times data does not loading in past one month. Little bit lagging for technical support

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

it can easily monitor for all services and integrate the third-party tool to get the alert notification .Avoid the business impact

Pros

Effective Service
Caring
Acts with Integrity
Helps Innovate

Ashley N.

Role: Operations
Industry: Food and Beverage
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

An exceptional APM tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Instana from other similar products?

This tool is reliable with measuring and monitoring application performance metrics.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It's easy to monitor our organization servers performance. It's simple to detect and solve anomalies with this tool. It's simple to conduct root cause analysis of application performance issues and also solving issues immediately. It's easy to receive instant alerts when application performance issues are detected.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I haven't encountered any negative vibe while using this tool as it meets all our needs.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

They need this tool for efficient Application Performance Monitoring.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Matt H.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Construction
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2020

Easy to use and install. Great features.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Instana from other similar products?

User friendly application. Easy to install. Not hard to figure out.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Resourceful and easy to use.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing at all

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would highly recommend this product to any business needing a change

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Instana

What is Instana?

Company Details

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Awards & Recognition

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Instana Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Instana?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Transaction Request Performance Tracking the performance of all web and other transactions within your system.

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment Supports one or many deployment models - On-prem, cloud or hybrid hosting of the database system.

Domain-Agnostic AI/ML Domain-agnostic AI/ML capabilities for events via third-party collectors.

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support Monitoring capabilities for cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure ServiceFabric.

Server Monitoring Monitor usage and performance of all application dependencies like databases, servers, containers, web services, caching, etc.

Automated Diagnostics Automated diagnostics providing prebuilt workflows for problem detection, correlation of application behavior and performance, and determination of cause.

Application Metric Reporting Tracking of both custom and basic application framework metrics.

Error Reporting Tracking and automatic notification of alerts or errors within the system.

Scalability Scalability refers to the transaction size per second / time taken to put a transaction in the block and the time taken to reach a consensus.

Application Request Tracing Detail key attributes of application requests and transactions.

Application Discovery Automated discovery of web servers, application servers, and micro-services, application frameworks, and platforms.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Instana Reviews

Mallayasamy k.

Good Tool for Kubernetes platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ashley N.

An exceptional APM tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Matt H.

Easy to use and install. Great features.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Transaction Request Performance

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Domain-Agnostic AI/ML

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Server Monitoring

Automated Diagnostics

Application Metric Reporting

Error Reporting

Scalability

Application Request Tracing

Application Discovery

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training