Full-stack automated observability with IBM Instana

Stay ahead of every issue with the world’s most granular, highest cardinality monitoring
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Stay ahead of every incident

IBM Instana® automatically and continuously delivers the highest-fidelity data. Only Instana® delivers the real-time, high-fidelity data required in today’s dynamic application and infrastructure environments to find and fix issues before they impact users.
Faster deployments

Automated monitoring configuration keeps CI/CD pipelines running at full speed.
Actionable insights

Real-time contextual understanding helps DevOps find and fix problems faster.
Monitor your entire stack together

Holistic monitoring with visibility from hardware and infrastructure to applications and business processes.
Holistic monitoring with visibility from hardware and infrastructure to applications and business processes.

Understand upstream and downstream dependencies across the entire application service map.

Real-time observability and insights

The insight provided by Instana allows all application stakeholders to see the exact data they want with the context they need. It enables them to quickly determine the cause of an issue and take immediate action to fix it.

  • One-second granularity so you stay ahead of every problem

  • An end-to-end distributed trace of every call or request

  • A graphing model and dynamic maps to show you how everything is related

 

 

Features

Real-time dependency maps

Consistently get the full context. Understand the dependencies of each application service and infrastructure component with data that is "automatically and continuously updated" based on the discovery.

Instana UI dashboard screenshot showing Real-time dependency maps

Pipeline feedback

Gain immediate understanding of the impact of software releases, empowering developers and ensuring better application quality.

CI/CD pipeline acceleration use case screenshot

Full open telemetry support

Automate, contextualize and take intelligent action in open telemetry to ensure that no service is left uninstrumented and you get the full picture in context. Enjoy the same great Instana experience no matter where the data comes from.

Instana open telemetry dashboard showing enriched data

Smart alerts

Eliminate the guess work with meaningful alerts tailored to your environment and customized blueprints to suit your needs.

Instana alert screenshot that shows the incident timeline, triggering and related events

Related use cases

70%

decrease in problem detection and resolution time.

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reduction in incident response time.

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reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD).
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boost in application performance.

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Related use cases

Shift-left testing

Infuses the CI/CD process with automation, context and actionable intelligence to help deliver better software faster.

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Business activity monitoring

Gain a comprehensive, centralized view of the health and performance of your entire IT ecosystem in a single dashboard.

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Microservices monitoring

Automates application discovery, monitoring, tracing and root cause analysis.

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GenAI Observability

Troubleshoot and govern agentic and LLM-powered applications.

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Take the next step

IBM Instana Observability gives everyone across the enterprise intuitive access to the data that they want, along with the context they need. This capability enables rapid issue prevention and remediation.

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