IBM Instana Observability

1. Ease of agent deployment and number of self-configuring built-in sensors 2. Trace level details of requests - easy to find bottlenecks 3. Intuitive UI - quick to get started 4. Being able to see accumulated latency within application makes it much easy to spot performance opportunities.

traceability of services

The real time monitoring and the clear visibility and its very faster in predicting when something goes wrong in the production environment The strength will be 1.) Real time monitoring 2.) Easy to understand dashboard 3.) Effective alerting and faster troubleshooting

1. There isn't a way to easily, automatically instrument all of the unique URLs that make up an application and have it alert based on standard deviations based on those URLs. This is a manual process. With thousands of URLs across hundreds of applications, this is not doable. There is an API available to do this in an automated fashion through manual specifications. 2. The current dynamic agent update process comes with the risk of sensors being introduced with bugs that can break your own applications. We have been working with Instana/IBM on this for years. It sounds like this is something that has gained more focus this year. 3. The on-prem version receives new features after the SASS version 4. Initially there was a LOT of focus on instrumenting Open Source products. In the last few years, much of the instrumentation has focused on IBM products.

some additional configurations that must be made in some technologies do not work because the tool is very new or the documentation and support is not accurate

Initial setup and configuration & sometimes its saying CPU is 99 % higher but when we deep-down sometimes it will only give the 30 % of the reason. We have raised a ticket and are waiting for an update from IBM team.