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Cloud monitoring

Monitor the performance of your cloud-native ecosystem to accelerate your modernization effort

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Instana’s ability to automatically discover, monitor and optimize all components within the AWS ecosystem enables proactive performance management and incident remediation.

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Real-time visibility into cloud environments

Migrating your applications, infrastructure and services to cloud is not enough to drive your digital transformation roadmap's success. You need an effective cloud modernization strategy to track key performance metrics—such as response time, resource utilization and error rates—to identify potential issues that could impact your cloud resources.

IBM® Instana® Observability enables your IT teams to proactively monitor and manage your cloud resources across multiple platforms, such as AWS, SAP, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Use Instana, to quickly identify and fix issues before they impact end users. In addition, gain real-time insights to optimize performance, resource utilization and user experience.

Monitoring SAP BTP cloud-native applications

Key features

Instana cloud monitoring dashboard identifying and resolving performance issues
Automated incident remediation

-    Instana automatically discovers and maps your cloud deployments to provide complete visibility into every cloud infrastructure component and application service.

 

-   Real-time event alerts and dependency maps allow everyone, from cloud operators to DevOps teams, to quickly respond and prevent downtime or slowdowns

 

Learn more about incident remediation
Automatically detects changes, issues and incidents to drastically
decrease the time to investigate the root cause of every service impact
of your applications
Root cause analysis

-    Instana provides AI-powered analytics to enable automatic root cause analysis of performance issues

-    This advanced analytics capability quickly identifies whether a service incident stems from an issue with the infrastructure, orchestrator, container runtime, cloud platform or code—directing your teams to the root cause of any issue

Read blog post on probable root cause
Instana cloud monitoring dashboard accelerating with automation
Accelerate monitoring

-    Instana automatically discovers your cloud infrastructure, including containers and microservices, along with their dependencies

-    It traces requests across all components, swiftly pinpointing bottlenecks. Integration with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Ansible®, and Kubernetes enables automated monitoring workflows

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Instana dashboard showing infrastructure map
Infrastructure monitoring

-    Instana has over 150 monitoring sensors that operate in bare metal, virtual hosts, private or public cloud, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and serverless infrastructures

-    Each with a set of built-in health rules and alerts—delivering full observability without requiring any manual setup or configuration

Learn more about Infrastructure monitoring
Instana cloud monitoring dashboard identifying and resolving performance issues
Automated incident remediation

-    Instana automatically discovers and maps your cloud deployments to provide complete visibility into every cloud infrastructure component and application service.

 

-   Real-time event alerts and dependency maps allow everyone, from cloud operators to DevOps teams, to quickly respond and prevent downtime or slowdowns

 

Learn more about incident remediation
Automatically detects changes, issues and incidents to drastically
decrease the time to investigate the root cause of every service impact
of your applications
Root cause analysis

-    Instana provides AI-powered analytics to enable automatic root cause analysis of performance issues

-    This advanced analytics capability quickly identifies whether a service incident stems from an issue with the infrastructure, orchestrator, container runtime, cloud platform or code—directing your teams to the root cause of any issue

Read blog post on probable root cause
Instana cloud monitoring dashboard accelerating with automation
Accelerate monitoring

-    Instana automatically discovers your cloud infrastructure, including containers and microservices, along with their dependencies

-    It traces requests across all components, swiftly pinpointing bottlenecks. Integration with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Ansible®, and Kubernetes enables automated monitoring workflows

Watch webinar on Monitoring at the speed of DevOps
Instana dashboard showing infrastructure map
Infrastructure monitoring

-    Instana has over 150 monitoring sensors that operate in bare metal, virtual hosts, private or public cloud, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and serverless infrastructures

-    Each with a set of built-in health rules and alerts—delivering full observability without requiring any manual setup or configuration

Learn more about Infrastructure monitoring

Benefits

30% Improvement in MTTR

Tata Play Broadband now have deep contextual insight about the performance of their applications.

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15% Proactive incident avoidance

Using Instana and Turbonomic, APIS IT is taking the stress out of application performance management.

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21% More productive IT engineers

IDC calculated the IT engineers productivity gain for Instana customers.

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