IBM Instana Observability goes beyond traditional APM solutions by democratizing observability so anyone across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps and development can get the data they want with the context they need. Instana automatically delivers continuous high-fidelity data at 1-second granularity and end-to-end traces with the context of logical and physical dependencies across mobile, web, applications and infrastructure.

Unbounded analytics provides even easier query data—here’s how

7 min read - When applications produce anomalies such as erroneous calls, problematic traces, a high degree of events or an accumulation of problem messages in logs, observability tools determine how fast you can identify the root cause. In a best-case scenario, your observability tool uncovers the first signs of something that could slow down or disrupt an application, and you can mitigate it before it impacts customers. Other times, more sudden events can cause an immediate disruption, and you have to triage and…

Don’t get lost in log data: Where to find application logs with the IBM Instana platform

4 min read - When we introduced the world to enterprise observability, we talked about concepts that make application observability, monitoring and troubleshooting more useful for broad user types and companies of any size. Instead of parroting the rest of the observability industry, talking about metrics, traces and logs, we focused on the value the IBM Instana™ platform brings to users when they use that data. We never talked about how the IBM Instana platform has metrics, traces and logs because that’s kind of…

Custom dashboards for business and IT metrics with the IBM Instana platform

3 min read - Putting metrics and charts on custom dashboards has been an important part of IT and business operations from the earliest days of monitoring. That’s not to say nothing has changed in the past 30–40 years. To the contrary, the concept of creating and maintaining hundreds of dashboards is outdated and we know there are much better ways to implement a dashboarding strategy. The key is to create as few dashboards as needed, with as much automation built in for managing…

The basics of IBM Instana Application Perspectives

4 min read - The IBM Instana™ platform provides a vast range of application and microservices metrics, events, traces, profiles and application log information with the context needed to manage cloud-native environments. When you have that much information, it can be challenging to quickly discover the specific information you want to find. The more complex the application is, the harder it is for individuals or teams to find the data most relevant to their specific responsibilities. That’s just one of the monitoring problems addressed by…

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