Overview

IBM Instana Observability for z/OS offers observability for mainframe application environments, enabling application and SRE teams to gain end-to-end visibility across mobile and mainframe systems. By expanding the monitoring capabilities of IBM Instana to include hybrid applications spanning public cloud and mainframe, IBM Instana Observability for z/OS enables users to easily pinpoint z/OS-based components that impact these hybrid applications and view complete end-to-end transactions via customizable dashboards.

Both IBM Instana Observability and IBM Instana Observability for z/OS are needed to form a full end-to-end trace from distributed side to z/OS services. Before you start monitoring z/OS systems with IBM Instana Observability for z/OS, you must first install and configure IBM Instana Observability, which is licensed separately and includes all the distributed host agents, the Instana backend, and the Instana user interface.