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.

Buying APM was a good decision (so is getting rid of it)

4 min read - For a long time, there wasn’t a good standard definition of observability that encompassed organizational needs while keeping the spirit of IT monitoring intact. Eventually, the concept of “Observability = Metrics + Traces + Logs” became the de facto definition. That’s nice, but to understand what observability should be, you must consider the characteristics of modern applications: Changes in how they’re developed, deployed and operated The blurring of lines between application code and infrastructure New architectures and technologies like Docker,…

Modernize how you observe a monolith Java app

3 min read - The ask: Can Instana do method-level tracing? This is a common question from customers who want to replace their APM/observability vendor but must cover monolith applications and come in with a method-level-tracing requirement. Why do customers want it? Customers will use this analysis of every method call inside the monolith to look for the longest-running methods. They can point their performance engineers at these methods to make the monolith run faster. With IBM Instana Observability, we would like to look…

IBM Instana wins the Devies 2023 Award in the Developer Category in Observability and Monitoring

2 min read - We’re excited to announce that IBM Instana Observability has won the Devies 2023 Award in the Developer Category in Observability and Monitoring. Just a few weeks into the new year, congratulations are in order to the Instana team. The 11th Annual Devies are the definitive annual awards for the software industry, recognizing outstanding design, engineering and innovation in developer technology across 31 categories. This recognition is a testament to IBM's hard work and dedication to delivering exceptional products that meet…

A Turbonomic and Instana use case

4 min read - The application performance is good but what about efficiency? Why is the balance of performance and efficiency in your observability strategy important? Costs are an important piece of all company strategies and can define the success of a project or for an entire company. High performance is important but at what cost? The most important objective of deploying observability solutions is to improve the reliability, performance and availability of the applications, but how can we guarantee we’re not overutilizing the…

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