Feature
Essentials
Standard
Infrastructure discovery & mapping
Support for on-premise, cloud, hybrid, multi-cloud
Container & orchestration monitoring
1-second monitoring granularity
3-second change notification & alerting
OpenTelemetry support
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
Observability Standard1
Starting at USD 75* – Includes all features in our Observability Essentials Pricing plan, plus:
Feature Category
Feature
Essentials
Standard
Service Discovery and Mapping
Automatic service and application discovery, mapping, APM configuration, monitoring, tracing
Real-time change detection
Scalability & flexibility for cloud environments
Full-stack visibility with context
Application Performance Monitoring
Code-level visibility for 14 runtimes
Always-on profiling in production environments
Tracing and Log Management
Distributed trace capture and storage
Automatic application log ingestion
Visualization and Analysis
Integrated digital experience management with trace and monitoring
Unified 1-second granularity monitoring of application metrics & infrastructure
Application perspectives for grouping and filtering
Tailored data delivery with instant context
Instana Unbounded Analytics ™
Incident Management
Pipeline Feedback™ for instant change analysis
Instana Smart Alerts for automated issue and incident analysis
AI-powered probable cause analysis
Automated incident remediation
Serverless Monitoring
Serverless application monitoring and tracing
Serverless infrastructure monitoring
Dependency Mapping
Automated monitoring and tracing support for 14 runtimes and 300+ microservice platforms
Real-time understanding of all entity interdependencies
Digital Experience Monitoring
Includes website, mobile and synthetic monitoring (when not using Instana Managed PoPs2)
Generative AI
Performance management of GenAI modules
Log Management
Basic log ingestion with 7-day retention. Full log management feature requires the Logs in Context Add-On.3
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
Instana Managed PoPs2: Execute synthetic tests from multiple locations around the world, managed from Instana.
- Simple API Test: USD 3 per 10,000 executions per month.
- API Script Test: USD 5 per 10,000 executions per month.
- Browser Test: USD 12 per 1,000 executions per month.
Logs in context3: Provides advanced log ingestion from any source via OpenTelemetry, 30-day retention, with options for 60/90-day retention and enhanced analytics.
- 30-day retention: USD 350 per 1,000 GB per month.
- 60-day retention: USD 420 per 1,000 GB per month.
- 90-day retention: USD 490 per 1,000 GB per month.
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
Note:
- To ensure exceptional performance and sustainability for every client, a data-ingest-based fair-use policy is applied only to SaaS offerings, providing 325 GB data-ingest per Standard (50 GB per Essential) MVS entitlement per month, averaged across all entitlements. For exceptional data ingestion needs, we offer an add-on providing additional capacity addressing both regular or on-demand use cases.
- You can conduct synthetic tests even without purchasing the add-on if you wish. Synthetic Monitoring is also accessible in the Observability Standard Pricing plan when utilizing your self-hosted Point of Presence (PoP). The add-on is solely necessary for running synthetic tests from Instana Managed PoPs.
- Logs in Context Add-on is available on Observability Essentials and Standard editions for both SaaS and Self-Hosted.
Frequently asked questions
A Managed Virtual Server (MVS) is a unit of measure by which Instana can be licensed. It can comprise physical machines, virtual servers or worker nodes. Physical machines can be physical computers, blades, rack-mounted devices or anything else comprised of processing units, memory and input/output capabilities that execute applications or portions of applications. A virtual server is either a virtual computer created by partitioning the resources of a physical server or an unpartitioned physical server. Licensee must obtain an MVS license for each virtual server managed.
Instana Observability Essentials pricing plan focuses on basic infrastructure discovery, mapping, and monitoring, while the Observability Standard pricing plan provides more application-centric, advanced features like code-level visibility, tracing, log management, and real-time change detection.
Yes, you can start your Instana Free Trial today to experience our monitoring solutions firsthand.
Instana offers various support options, including comprehensive documentation, community forums for peer-to-peer support and knowledge sharing, as well as direct customer support channels for assistance with any issues or questions you may have. These support options ensure that you have access to the resources and assistance you need to make the most of Instana's solutions.
No. At Instana, we believe that infrastructure monitoring, end-user monitoring (EUM), and analytics are all core functions of a great APM tool. As such, everything is included in the APM licensing. Check out common observability myths.
A standard Instana license is available on a minimum order quantity of 10 hosts and includes access for unlimited number of users and support for 300+ technologies.
Yes. Instana is a member of The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and welcomes the use of many open-source technologies. Instana makes it very easy for our users to see their open source traces and metrics alongside, and correlated with, Instana’s natively collected metrics and traces.
No, Instana doesn’t charge variable costs to our customers. The APM license includes all traces (unlimited), databases, users, and storage. Check out common observability myths.
At Instana, our commitment to privacy and security has led us to complete our SOC 2 requirements and audit successfully. With this certification you have peace of mind, knowing that there has been an independent and full review of Instana’s security that verified the appropriateness in the design of controls regarding availability, processing integrity and confidentiality of the service.
Instana Automates the entire application monitoring. Instana bills on a per host, per month, billed annually, which is more predictable than other competitors. See the six reasons why users are switching.