IBM Instana Features
What are the features of IBM Instana?
Response
- Dashboards and Visualization
- Incident Alerting
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Functionality
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Cloud Observability
Monitoring
- Usage Monitoring
- API Monitoring
- Real-Time Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
- Performance Baselines
- Performance Analysis
- Performance Monitoring
- Multi-System Monitoring
Analysis
- Dashboards and Visualizations
Performance
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Second by Second Metrics
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Response
Resolution Automation | Diagnose and resolve incidents without the need for human interaction. | Not enough data | |
Resolution Guidance | Guide users through the resolution process and give specific instructions to remedy individual occurrences. | Not enough data | |
System Isolation | Cuts off network connection or temporarily inactivate applications until incidents are remedied. | Not enough data | |
Threat Intelligence | Gathers information related to threats in order to gain further information on remedies. | Not enough data | |
Dashboards and Visualization | This feature was mentioned in 155 IBM Instana reviews. | 86% (Based on 155 reviews) | |
Incident Alerting | Based on 151 IBM Instana reviews. | 84% (Based on 151 reviews) | |
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) | This feature was mentioned in 140 IBM Instana reviews. | 82% (Based on 140 reviews) |
Records
Incident Logs | Information on each incident is stored in databases for user reference and analytics. | Not enough data | |
Incident Reports | Produces reports detailing trends and vulnerabilities related to their network and infrastructure. | Not enough data | |
Resource Usage | Analyzes recurring incidents and remedies to ensure optimal resource usage. | Not enough data |
Management
Incident Alerts | Gives alerts when incidents arise. Some responses may be automated, but users will still be informed. | Not enough data | |
Database Management | Adminstrators can access and organize data related to incidents to produce reports or make data more navigable. | Not enough data | |
Workflow Management | Administrators can organize workflows to guide remedies to specific situations incident types. | Not enough data | |
System Integration | Based on 32 IBM Instana reviews. Integrates with a variety of IT systems. | 90% (Based on 32 reviews) | |
Alerting | Automatically alerts necessary parties via email, text, or call when issues are identified. This feature was mentioned in 31 IBM Instana reviews. | 89% (Based on 31 reviews) | |
Reporting | Generate sreports and dashboards highlighting trends and key metrics around issues and issue resolution. 29 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 86% (Based on 29 reviews) | |
Single Pane of Glass | Consolidate IT systems monitoring overviews to a single pane for quick insights. | Not enough data | |
Dashboards and Visualization | Offer pre-built and custom reporting and dashboards for quick insights into system states. | Not enough data | |
Performance Baselines | Set expected baselines for system functions. | Not enough data | |
Alerting | Create and distribute detailed alerts via email, phone, and messaging for potential and active failures and errors. | Not enough data |
Functionality
Baseline | Based on 15 IBM Instana reviews. Sets and allows adjustment of website baseline functionality and configuration. | 90% (Based on 15 reviews) | |
Alerting | As reported in 15 IBM Instana reviews. Generates alerts for whenever a website goes down, experiences an error, makes a major change, or other events. | 92% (Based on 15 reviews) | |
Multi-Site Monitoring | Monitor multiple websites at once, organizing them with dashboards. This feature was mentioned in 15 IBM Instana reviews. | 92% (Based on 15 reviews) | |
Reporting | As reported in 14 IBM Instana reviews. Generate reports manually or automatically about website performance. | 89% (Based on 14 reviews) | |
Multi-Channel Alerting | As reported in 14 IBM Instana reviews. Alert over email, text, phone call, and more to multiple parties. | 92% (Based on 14 reviews) | |
Location Insights | Based on 14 IBM Instana reviews. Isolate geographic locations where website functionality is best and worst. | 87% (Based on 14 reviews) | |
Monitoring | Based on 12 IBM Instana reviews. Monitors database functionality to verify baselines are maintained or exceeded. | 93% (Based on 12 reviews) | |
Alerting | Sends alerts via email, text, phone, and more when an incident or issue occcurs. 12 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 88% (Based on 12 reviews) | |
Logging | As reported in 12 IBM Instana reviews. Captures logs for all database functions to garner greater information around issues or failures. | 86% (Based on 12 reviews) | |
Response Time | Based on 12 IBM Instana reviews. Monitors database query time for unusual execution times | 85% (Based on 12 reviews) | |
Reporting | Manually and/or automatically generates reports covering database performance 11 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 86% (Based on 11 reviews) | |
Data Visualization | Follows database monitoring live information through graphical dashboards This feature was mentioned in 12 IBM Instana reviews. | 83% (Based on 12 reviews) | |
Artificial Intelligence | Based on 26 IBM Instana reviews. Utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze big data. | 87% (Based on 26 reviews) | |
Machine Learning | As reported in 24 IBM Instana reviews. Utilizes machine learning to analyze big data. | 83% (Based on 24 reviews) | |
Systems Monitoring | As reported in 32 IBM Instana reviews. Monitors logs and activities from a wide range of IT systems. | 90% (Based on 32 reviews) | |
Diverse Systems Monitoring | Monitor usage and activity on a diverse array of IT systems, e.g., servers, databases, and networks. | Not enough data | |
Real-Time Analytics | Generate real-time high-level and/or in-depth analytics regarding monitored systems activity. | Not enough data | |
Observability | Generate insights into IT systems utilizing event metrics, logging, traces, and metadata. | Not enough data | |
AI/ML Integration | Integrate AI and/or machine learning capabilities to identify and address potential and active failures and errors. | Not enough data | |
Synthetic Monitoring | Monitors and test apps to address issues before they affect end users. 119 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 82% (Based on 119 reviews) | |
Dynamic Transaction Mapping | Based on 115 IBM Instana reviews. Provides dynamic end-to-end maps of every single transaction. | 85% (Based on 115 reviews) | |
Load Balancing | Based on 117 IBM Instana reviews. Automatically adjusts resources base on application usage. | 83% (Based on 117 reviews) | |
Cloud Observability | Monitors cloud microservices, containers, kubernetes, and other cloud native software. This feature was mentioned in 135 IBM Instana reviews. | 85% (Based on 135 reviews) |
Monitoring
Usage Monitoring | As reported in 124 IBM Instana reviews. Tracks infrastructure resource needs and alerts administrators or automatically scales usage to minimize waste. | 89% (Based on 124 reviews) | |
Database Monitoring | Monitors performance and statistics related to memory, caches and connections. This feature was mentioned in 114 IBM Instana reviews. | 84% (Based on 114 reviews) | |
API Monitoring | Based on 122 IBM Instana reviews. Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering. | 89% (Based on 122 reviews) | |
Real-Time Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring | Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time. 126 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 87% (Based on 126 reviews) | |
Performance Baselines | 150 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 86% (Based on 150 reviews) | |
Performance Analysis | Based on 161 IBM Instana reviews. | 87% (Based on 161 reviews) | |
Performance Monitoring | 160 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 89% (Based on 160 reviews) | |
AI/ML Assistance | This feature was mentioned in 109 IBM Instana reviews. | 77% (Based on 109 reviews) | |
Multi-System Monitoring | As reported in 143 IBM Instana reviews. | 85% (Based on 143 reviews) | |
Resource utilization | Optimizes resource allocation. This feature was mentioned in 52 IBM Instana reviews. | 83% (Based on 52 reviews) | |
Real-time monitoring | Consistently monitors processes for applications and IT infrastructure to detect anomalies in real-time. 57 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 88% (Based on 57 reviews) | |
Performance baseline | Sets up standard performance baseline to compare live container activities. This feature was mentioned in 52 IBM Instana reviews. | 81% (Based on 52 reviews) | |
API monitoring | Traces connections between different containerized environments and detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering. This feature was mentioned in 51 IBM Instana reviews. | 88% (Based on 51 reviews) |
Administration
Activity Monitoring | Actively monitor status of work stations either on-premise or remote. 119 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 85% (Based on 119 reviews) | |
Multi-Cloud Management | As reported in 97 IBM Instana reviews. Allows users to track and control cloud spend across cloud services and providers. | 88% (Based on 97 reviews) | |
Automation | As reported in 93 IBM Instana reviews. Efficiently scales resource usage to optimize spend whith increased or decreased resource usage requirements. | 85% (Based on 93 reviews) |
Analysis
Reporting | Creates reports outlining resource, underutilization, cost trends, and/or functional overlap. 106 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 84% (Based on 106 reviews) | |
Dashboards and Visualizations | As reported in 124 IBM Instana reviews. Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way. | 85% (Based on 124 reviews) | |
Spend Forecasting and Optimization | Based on 93 IBM Instana reviews. Ability to project spend based on contracts, usage trends, and predicted growth. | 84% (Based on 93 reviews) | |
Search | Allows users to search logs for troubleshooting and open-ended exploration of data. This feature was mentioned in 50 IBM Instana reviews. | 82% (Based on 50 reviews) | |
Reporting | Creates reports outlining resource, underutilization, cost trends, and/or functional overlap. 41 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 81% (Based on 41 reviews) | |
Visualization | Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way. This feature was mentioned in 56 IBM Instana reviews. | 86% (Based on 56 reviews) | |
Track trends | Allows users to track log trends. This feature was mentioned in 37 IBM Instana reviews. | 85% (Based on 37 reviews) |
Issue Resolution
Root Cause Identification | As reported in 32 IBM Instana reviews. Directly identifies, or increases identification speed for, root causes for IT system issues. | 91% (Based on 32 reviews) | |
Proactive Identification | Proactively identifies trends on IT systems that could lead to failures or errors. 31 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 88% (Based on 31 reviews) | |
Resolution Guidance | Based on 31 IBM Instana reviews. Provides paths, suggestions, or other general assistance towards issue resolution. | 87% (Based on 31 reviews) | |
Root cause identification | As reported in 48 IBM Instana reviews. Directly identifies, or increases identification speed for, root causes for container issues. | 85% (Based on 48 reviews) | |
Resolution guidance | Provides paths, suggestions, or other general assistance towards issue resolution. 40 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 76% (Based on 40 reviews) | |
Proactive identification | As reported in 42 IBM Instana reviews. Proactively identifies trends on container systems that could lead to failures or errors. | 81% (Based on 42 reviews) |
Visibility
Dashboards and Visualizations | Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way. | Not enough data | |
Alerts and Notifications | Clearly notifies users with relevant information and anomalies in a timely manner. | Not enough data | |
Reporting | Creates reports outlining performance and other relevant metrics. | Not enough data |
Monitoring and Management
Multi-Device Management | Allows users to track and control resource allocation across multiple devices. | Not enough data | |
Automation | Automatically allocates resources to optimize loads across devices. | Not enough data | |
Performance Baseline | Sets a standard performance baseline by which to compare live hardware metrics. | Not enough data | |
Real-Time Monitoring | Constantly monitors hardware to detect anomalies in real time. | Not enough data |
Performance
Real User Monitoring (RUM) | Based on 125 IBM Instana reviews. Captures and analyzes each transaction by users of a website or application in real time. | 83% (Based on 125 reviews) | |
Second by Second Metrics | As reported in 140 IBM Instana reviews. Provides high-frequency metrics data. | 84% (Based on 140 reviews) |
Alerts management
Multi-mode alerts | Based on 36 IBM Instana reviews. Alerts over email, text, phone call, or more to multiple parties. | 81% (Based on 36 reviews) | |
Opimization alerts | Provides information related to unnecessary spending and unused resources. This feature was mentioned in 40 IBM Instana reviews. | 82% (Based on 40 reviews) | |
Incident alerts | Based on 52 IBM Instana reviews. Gives alerts when incidents arise. | 84% (Based on 52 reviews) |
Automation
Resolution automation | Diagnoses and resolves incidents without the need for human interaction. 31 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 80% (Based on 31 reviews) | |
Automation | Efficiently scales resource usage to optimize spend whith increased or decreased resource usage requirements. 33 reviewers of IBM Instana have provided feedback on this feature. | 80% (Based on 33 reviews) |
