Automatically observe, monitor and fix your entire application stack, helping reduce MTTR and meet SLOs
Monitor applications anywhere they are deployed
IBM® Instana® Observability provides application performance monitoring that equips you with fast, automated and contextualized visibility into the health and availability of your entire application environment. It empowers DevOps to monitor synthetic tests, run diagnostics, reduce response time, optimize application performance and accelerate CI/CD pipelines to deliver exceptional customer experience.
Key features
- Full Stack APM
- Discovery and monitoring
- Logs in context
- Distributed tracing
- Unbounded analytics
- Root cause analysis
Zero-effort automated tracing
- Get full distributed tracing with zero sampling across your entire application stack including browser and mobile apps, databases and individual lines of code.
- Automatically observe, monitor and address performance issues before they impact end-users.
Comprehensive coverage across physical, logical and business components
- Automatically discovers all the components of an application and provides a graphical representation of the application's topology.
- Continuous discovery defines the evolving dependency chain of the Dynamic Graph, enabling both temporal and spatial deterministic analysis.
- Get access to Kubernetes cost insights within the Instana interface. Perform cost monitoring for Kubernetes clusters by using prebuilt, out-of-the-box dashboards and automated analysis of historical spend.
Get logging data from various sources
- Powered by OpenTelemetry-based log ingestion and configurable log retention. Get deeper insights, enhance security and streamline operations—all from within a single platform.
- Automatically gather application and service logs, correlate them with metrics and traces and enhance traces or calls with extra log messages to get deeper insights.
Get user-defined transaction profiling for highly distributed and microservice environments
- Trace transactions across different components of an application, providing insights into the application performance of individual components and how they interact.
- If errors or slow performance occur, get a detailed context so that all the required data for troubleshooting a particular case is available.
Generate new insights from all unsampled and high-cardinality data
- Get data analytics and reporting features that enable IT teams to track application performance over time, identify trends and make informed decisions about capacity planning and infrastructure optimization.
- The tag-based filtering, grouping and visualization unlock value for all your DevOps tasks, eliminating the need to learn a complex new query language.
Automatically detect changes, issues and incidents to transform application performance
- By using the Dynamic Graph of Instana, correlate relevant events for each incident to get context and root cause analysis hypotheses.
- Auto detect changes, issues and incidents to drastically decrease the time to investigate the root cause of every service impacting your applications.
IBM Instana has won the G2 Winter 2026 awards for being a Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Overall, Mid-market, SMB and Momentum Leader. Explore all of IBM Instana features and read what real users say about us.
Proven results
Optimize application performance and accelerate integration and deployment pipelines.
Make application observability accessible across different teams, to streamline processes and foster collaboration.
Reduce system bottlenecks leading to lower turnaround time to resolve critical incidents.
Quickly identify the root cause of issues through granular application monitoring.
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