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At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (41.0% of reviews)
Enterprise (45.9% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $18.00
Free Trial
IBM Instana
Star Rating
(435)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (41.0% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $18.00
Free Trial is available
Browse all 2 pricing plansIBM Turbonomic
Star Rating
(282)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (45.9% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free Trial
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansIBM Instana vs IBM Turbonomic
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found IBM Instana easier to use and set up. However, IBM Turbonomic is easier to administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with IBM Turbonomic overall.
- Reviewers felt that IBM Turbonomic meets the needs of their business better than IBM Instana.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that IBM Turbonomic is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of IBM Turbonomic over IBM Instana.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
IBM Instana
Essentials
Starting at $18.00
Automatic discovery, mapping and monitoring of Infrastructure
- Includes All Infrastructure Monitoring Features
- Includes End User Monitoring
- Includes Unbounded Analytics
IBM Turbonomic
Free Trial
Free Trial
Get started with Turbonomic for a 30-day evaluation with unlimited optimization of your application resources and cloud costs for your AWS, Azure and GCP accounts.
- Public cloud optimization
Free Trial
IBM Instana
Free Trial is available
IBM Turbonomic
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.6
345
8.7
207
Ease of Use
8.6
358
8.4
216
Ease of Setup
8.9
196
8.3
170
Ease of Admin
8.4
128
8.5
141
Quality of Support
8.6
310
8.9
182
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
128
9.0
140
Product Direction (% positive)
8.4
331
8.6
199
Features by Category
Operations
Not enough data
8.8
110
Not enough data
8.7
104
Not enough data
8.4
84
Not enough data
8.5
101
Cost Optimization
Not enough data
8.6
103
Not enough data
8.6
101
Not enough data
8.5
94
Administration
Not enough data
8.1
98
Not enough data
8.3
107
Not enough data
8.5
84
Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management
Not enough data
7.7
5
Not enough data
7.7
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Functionality
9.2
20
Not enough data
9.4
20
Not enough data
9.3
20
Not enough data
9.2
19
Not enough data
9.3
19
Not enough data
8.8
18
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Experience
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
9.4
13
8.8
8
8.8
13
8.8
8
8.7
13
8.3
8
8.6
13
7.9
8
8.8
12
8.8
8
8.5
13
7.7
8
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.9
131
8.7
35
8.4
121
8.4
32
8.9
129
8.1
30
8.7
133
8.8
32
9.7
6
7.0
9
Administration
8.6
126
8.5
34
8.7
104
8.5
30
8.5
100
8.5
33
9.4
6
8.7
9
Analysis
8.5
114
7.9
34
8.5
131
7.9
34
8.3
99
8.3
34
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.5
8
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.7
8
Not enough data
7.9
8
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
6.7
8
Not enough data
6.5
8
Functionality
Not enough data
8.1
24
Not enough data
8.3
23
Not enough data
8.5
24
Management
Not enough data
8.7
23
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.7
25
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Agentic AI - Cloud Management Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
8.7
27
8.3
17
8.4
25
8.5
16
9.0
34
8.8
16
Issue Resolution
9.1
34
Feature Not Available
8.9
32
8.8
17
8.7
33
8.6
17
Management
9.0
33
8.6
17
8.9
33
8.8
17
8.7
30
8.8
17
Generative AI
Not enough data
8.9
11
Not enough data
8.6
11
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
7.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
7.7
5
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Hardware Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
9.7
6
Not enough data
9.2
6
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
7.8
6
Not enough data
7.2
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Cloud environment support
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
10.0
6
8.5
9
10.0
6
8.9
9
10.0
6
8.1
9
9.7
6
7.8
9
Management
10.0
6
8.3
9
10.0
6
8.7
9
10.0
6
9.1
9
10.0
6
9.4
9
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance Management
Not enough data
8.3
7
Not enough data
8.3
7
Not enough data
8.6
7
Monitoring
Not enough data
9.0
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Monitoring
8.5
165
Not enough data
8.6
176
Not enough data
8.9
175
Not enough data
7.6
124
Not enough data
8.5
158
Not enough data
Response
8.5
170
Not enough data
8.4
166
Not enough data
8.1
155
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
7.0
10
Not enough data
8.0
10
Not enough data
7.3
10
Not enough data
7.3
10
Not enough data
7.4
11
Not enough data
Performance
8.3
139
Not enough data
8.4
154
Not enough data
Functionality
8.1
133
Not enough data
8.4
128
Not enough data
8.2
130
Not enough data
8.5
149
Not enough data
Alerts management
8.1
40
7.7
8
8.1
44
7.3
8
8.4
56
8.0
9
Monitoring
8.3
56
8.1
9
8.8
61
8.1
9
8.2
56
8.7
9
8.9
55
Feature Not Available
Automation
7.9
35
7.1
8
7.9
37
7.3
8
Analysis
8.2
54
7.3
8
8.1
45
8.0
9
8.6
60
8.0
9
8.5
41
7.2
9
Issue Resolution
8.5
52
8.1
9
7.6
44
8.1
8
8.2
46
7.1
8
Generative AI
8.7
10
Not enough data
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Observability Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Features - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Response
8.8
7
Not enough data
8.6
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
Records
8.9
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
Management
9.4
6
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
Generative AI
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
Analysis
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Platform
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.3
21
Not enough data
8.2
21
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Security
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.6
25
Not enough data
8.1
25
Agentic AI - Enterprise IT Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic are categorized as Enterprise Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Database Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, IT Alerting, and Container Monitoring
Unique Categories
IBM Instana is categorized as Observability Software, Hardware Monitoring, Website Monitoring, Incident Response, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Log Monitoring, Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), and Server Monitoring
IBM Turbonomic is categorized as Cloud Management Platforms, Cloud Cost Management, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), and Enterprise IT Management
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
IBM Instana
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
IBM Turbonomic
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
19.8%
Computer Software
10.6%
Telecommunications
6.3%
Financial Services
6.3%
Retail
5.5%
Other
51.6%
Information Technology and Services
18.0%
Computer Software
12.9%
Financial Services
5.9%
Telecommunications
5.5%
Computer & Network Security
4.7%
Other
52.9%
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Discussions
why use instana over another platform?
2 Comments
OG
If you compare those 2 only the price matters. Instana does not have the feature set of DataDog in any category.Read more
Is there a chatbot available?
2 Comments
OG
Best join a webinar or customer demo to learn more about it. It took me also a while to understand all the bits and pieces. Since IBM was acquired by IBM,...Read more
What is Instana?
1 Comment
SB
Hi,
Instana is a leading Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring. It discovers and maps all services,...Read more
How does Turbonomic automate decision making?
1 Comment
Official Response from IBM Turbonomic
Turbonomic automates decision making by applying the economic principles of supply, demand, and price to managing IT resources. Workloads make scaling,...Read more
Why is this approach (of applying the economic principles of supply and demand to allocate IT resources) effective?
1 Comment
Official Response from IBM Turbonomic
This approach is effective because it allows workloads to make their own scaling, placement, and capacity decisions based on all the resources they need, it...Read more
Who does Turbonomic work with?
1 Comment
Official Response from IBM Turbonomic
We've partnered with 2,000+ enterprise customers and over 100 of the Fortune 500 to enable innovation. Our customers span across industries from technology,...Read more
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