IBM Instana named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM and Observability
Overview
What is IBM® Observability®?
Boost functionality and observability in your enterprise application performance monitoring (APM) with IBM Instana. Improve application performance management and accelerate CI/CD pipelines no matter where applications reside—public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, on premises, IBM Z® and more. With IBM® Instana Observability, users can combine APM with automation capabilities and distributed tracing to deploy on premise or as a SaaS solution.
IBM Instana on AWS
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How customers are using it
CI/CD pipeline acceleration

CI/CD pipeline acceleration
Understand the impact of code-level changes within seconds of deployment to maintain high performance and service stability, reducing downtime, no matter how often you deploy.
Distributed tracing

Distributed tracing
An application performance monitoring solution to trace every request across every service, facilitating application troubleshooting and performance optimization.
Root cause analysis

Root cause analysis
Get immediate root cause identification of every service impact and improve response time.
Mobile to mainframe

Mobile to mainframe
Get industry leading observability through IBM Z application environments to provide application owners and SRE teams with the ability to get end-to-end observability for performance issues from mobile through mainframe in a single solution.
IBM Instana highlights
Industry-leading AI-powered automation capabilities and APM tools
Accurate real-time data
Continuous, real-time discovery
Powerful and easy-to-use data analytics
Dependency mapping of applications
Root-cause analysis automation
Is your application environment ready?
G2 Winter 2023 Leader in APM
IBM Instana named leader in application performance monitoring (APM)
The G2 Winter 2023 Application Performance Monitoring Grid Report highlights the features most appealing to IBM customers.

Client testimonials
It's a great tool for monitoring and observability. As a DevOps team, we are monitoring the performance of our tools and the underlying infrastructure. It provides real-time alerts so we can manage them efficiently and promptly. User friendly dashboards help to obtain relevant information quickly.
Sachin S.
System Engineer
Instana provide a central visibility point of our entire IT infrastructure. Easy to monitor our cloud servers and virtual platforms. It's also simple to create visually attractive dashboards. Alert and notifications are sent on real time and it offers the best and detailed reports of every server and application activities.
Mateo F.
Analytics Engineer
Technologies supported by Instana
A first-class application performance monitoring platform
Explore the innovative support technologies that we work with to elevate your automatic infrastructure and application performance monitoring to the next level.
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IBM AIOps solutions
IBM® Turbonomic® Application Resource Management
Automatically deliver the resources your apps need to perform to your APM monitor while adhering to business policies.
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Deploy advanced, explainable AI throughout your entire IT operations toolchain to assess, diagnose and resolve incidents across your IT infrastructure.