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“Amazingly Quick Instrumentation with Immediate Performance and Issue Insights”
“User Opinions on Product's Service Traceability and Configuration Issues”
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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
Instana without requiring a lot of manual work it automatically discovers services and shows the full system. Real time monitoring helps in finding root cause of the issues and early. handy dashboard.
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
Require extra tool for monitoring the network devices, it does not deliver high level insights like technical datas.
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- AVP WEB ADMINISTRATION50M-1B USDInsurance (except health)Review Source
Amazingly Quick Instrumentation with Immediate Performance and Issue Insights
Fast implementation and intuitve UI made it easy to realize value through application performance optimization and reduced Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR). - It Manager50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Clear Application Visibility Yet Missing Advanced Network and Technical Data Insights
IBM Instana Observability has so far been very positive. Easy to tool to set up and quickly gives clear picture of what is happening in the applications. Performance in real time, finding problems and fixing same is faster. - IT Associate1B-10B USDBankingReview Source
Platform Evolution Noted, Yet Reporting and AI Integration Highlighted as Gaps
Great client support from the Technical Team to Sales. Always happy to assist and help us with our inquiry. - IT Associate50M-1B USDInsurance (except health)Review Source
Detailed JVM Monitoring Features Appreciated, Desire for Manual Event Controls Noted
Our account manager and IBM have been fantastic to work with. The rep is responsive to our questions and knowledgeable of Instana. - IT Associate10B+ USDBankingReview Source
Good usability while IBM ACE and APIC remains complicated
It meets business requirements, with integration with our CMDB in ServiceNow platform for event management. The implementation is not complex.