Monitor and manage the performance of cloud-native infrastructure with AI-powered insights
Monitor and manage the performance of cloud-native infrastructure
Migrating applications, infrastructure and services to cloud is not enough to drive the success of digital transformation efforts. What’s needed is an effective cloud modernization strategy that tracks key performance metrics—such as response time, resource utilization and error rates—to identify potential issues that could impact the cloud resources.
IBM® Instana® Observability enables DevOps and SREs to proactively monitor and manage cloud resources across multiple platforms, such as AWS, SAP, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. With real-time detection of ephemeral data and mapping of all components within the application stack, Instana helps manage rapid changes within cloud-native application environments.
Key features
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Root cause analysis
- FinOps optimization
- Cloud health monitoring
Infrastructure monitoring
- With 150+ real-time sensors, Instana delivers full-stack visibility across bare metal, VMs, containers, serverless, PaaS/IaaS and hybrid cloud.
- Supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud® with automatic service mapping, dependency tracking and deployment detection.
- Offers built-in health rules and alerts for out-of-the-box, hands-free observability across diverse environments.
Root cause analysis
- Pinpoints issues across cloud platforms, orchestrators, containers or application code—directing teams to the root cause with precision.
- Accelerates problem resolution and minimizes MTTR with smart insights and contextual clarity.
Connect cost and performance insights to drive smarter Kubernetes resource decisions with Kubecost integration
- View real-time Kubernetes cost metrics inside Instana dashboards—aligning deployment performance with spend.
- Use bidirectional integration with Turbonomic® for automated, cost-aware resource optimization and hands-free workload scaling.
Instana auto-discovers and presents your cloud deployments—letting teams react swiftly to changing topology
- Supports AWS, Azure, GCP and IBM Cloud, providing real-time alerts and live dependency mapping to detect issues before users are affected.
- Empowers DevOps and cloud ops teams to remediate performance slowdowns and prevent downtime proactively.
IBM Instana has won the G2 Winter 2026 awards for being a Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Overall, Mid-market, SMB and Momentum Leader. Explore all of IBM Instana features and read what real users say about us.
Benefits
Tata Play Broadband now have deep contextual insight about the performance of their applications.
By using Instana and Turbonomic, APIS IT is taking the stress out of application performance management.
IDC calculated the IT engineers productivity gain for Instana customers.
SIXT reduced manual troubleshooting, enabling engineers to focus on innovation and strategic initiatives.
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