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Instana

Composite Score

8.2 /10

CX Score

8.6 /10

40 Reviews Write a Review

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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3 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

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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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+93 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

9% Neutral

91% Positive

Pros

Trustworthy
Enables Productivity
Client Friendly Policies
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Transaction Request Performance

Application Metric Reporting

Server Monitoring

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Error Reporting

Domain-Agnostic AI/ML

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Automated Diagnostics

Application Request Tracing

Scalability

Application Discovery

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Instana Reviews

Alexandre R.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

YAML file configuration disappoints

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Instana from other similar products?

Topology view of monitored entities; Customization of events, though the metrics are quite limited yet; Integration with problems notifications;

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Agent installation is very simple and easy UI navigation

What do you dislike most about this product?

YAML file configuration Synthetic monitoring needs to improve Support to monitor new technologies

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is very toilsome and laborious to implement and install the agents and configure the YAML files.

Pros

Trustworthy
Fair
Transparent
Includes Product Enhancements

Cons

Under Delivered

Ramazan A.

Role: C-Level
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Easy to integrate and great pricing strategy

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Instana from other similar products?

Pricing strategy and all in one solution

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It is not complicated as other products. You do not have to worry about separate components and separate pricing

What do you dislike most about this product?

Creating custom alerts

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It brings simplicity and you will get great support.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Quantum C.

Role: C-Level
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2023

Perfect Monitoring Solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Instana from other similar products?

Centred view of systems performance,requests and monitoring.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

No big IT knowledge is involved to use software.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It has no negative side.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

In these days of raising cybersecurity, this is reliable tool.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

How We Deliver

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Awards & Recognition

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Instana Ratings

85 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+93 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Instana Reviews

Alexandre R.

YAML file configuration disappoints

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Ramazan A.

Easy to integrate and great pricing strategy

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Quantum C.

Perfect Monitoring Solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Transaction Request Performance

Application Metric Reporting

Server Monitoring

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Error Reporting

Domain-Agnostic AI/ML

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Automated Diagnostics

Application Request Tracing

Scalability

Application Discovery

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement