Instana® named a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for application performance monitoring
Overview
What is IBM Instana 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.
APM and observability
Expert take: How they’re different and why it matters.
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.
Benefits
Benefits of IBM Observability by Instana APM
Automate observability
Gain full infrastructure monitoring and observability in dynamic environments with modern application monitoring tools.
Get data in context
See visualizations and get a real-time understanding of component impact.
Utilize artificial intelligence
Understand all factors to remove bottlenecks, resolve issues faster and improve the end-user experience.
Access ease of use
Give all teams the benefits of observability and APM with monitoring software.
IBM Instana highlights
Amplify your application performance monitoring
Accurate real-time data
Get 100% distributed tracing, 1-second metrics, immediate software deployment pipeline and CI/CD feedback.
Continuous, real-time discovery
Access single agent architecture of microservices and infrastructure with over 250 domain-specific sensors.
Powerful and easy-to-use data analytics
Drill down to generate new insights with infinite flexibility from the entire repository of application request trace data.
Dependency mapping of applications
Automate dependency mapping across the entire full-stack for flexible application perspectives.
Root-cause analysis automation
Automate event correlation, including performance thresholds, errors, changes and analysis of SLA violations.
Support for IBM Observability by Instana APM
Instana is an IBM company and responsible for the support of Observability by Instana APM. Customers can register with the Instana Support Portal (link resides outside IBM) to create and monitor their tickets.
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.