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Description
Improving business outcomes involves making it easier to spot and address high-priority incidents. The WatchTower Platform serves as a comprehensive observability tool that streamlines incident resolution specifically within mainframe environments by effectively integrating and correlating events, data flows, and metrics across various IT silos. It provides a cohesive and intuitive interface for operations teams, allowing them to optimize their workflows. Leveraging established AIOps solutions, WatchTower is adept at detecting potential problems at an early stage, which aids in proactive mitigation. Additionally, it utilizes OpenTelemetry to transmit mainframe data and insights to observability tools, allowing enterprise SREs to pinpoint bottlenecks and improve operational effectiveness. By enhancing alerts with relevant context, WatchTower eliminates the necessity for logging into multiple tools to gather essential information. Its workflows expedite the processes of problem identification, investigation, and incident resolution, while also simplifying the handover and escalation of issues. With such capabilities, WatchTower not only enhances incident management but also empowers teams to proactively maintain high service availability.
Description
IBM Instana sets the benchmark for incident prevention, offering comprehensive full-stack visibility with one-second precision and a notification time of just three seconds.
In the current landscape of rapidly evolving and intricate cloud infrastructures, the financial repercussions of an hour of downtime can soar into the six-figure range or more. Conventional application performance monitoring (APM) tools often fall short, lacking the speed and depth required to effectively address and contextualize technical issues, and they usually necessitate extensive training for super users before they can be utilized effectively.
In contrast, IBM Instana Observability transcends the limitations of standard APM tools by making observability accessible to a wider audience, enabling individuals from DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps, and development teams to obtain the necessary data and context without barriers.
The Instana Dynamic APM functions through a specialized agent architecture, utilizing sensors—automated, lightweight programs specifically designed to monitor particular entities and ensure optimal performance. As a result, organizations can respond to incidents proactively and maintain a higher level of service continuity.
API Access
Has API
API Access
Has API
Integrations
AWS Fargate
AlertOps
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Apica
Cortex
DBmarlin
Google Cloud Platform
Grafana Cloud
Humio
Kubernetes
Integrations
AWS Fargate
AlertOps
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Apica
Cortex
DBmarlin
Google Cloud Platform
Grafana Cloud
Humio
Kubernetes
Pricing Details
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Free Trial
Free Version
Pricing Details
$75 per month
Free Trial
Free Version
Deployment
Web-Based
On-Premises
iPhone App
iPad App
Android App
Windows
Mac
Linux
Chromebook
Deployment
Web-Based
On-Premises
iPhone App
iPad App
Android App
Windows
Mac
Linux
Chromebook
Customer Support
Business Hours
Live Rep (24/7)
Online Support
Customer Support
Business Hours
Live Rep (24/7)
Online Support
Types of Training
Training Docs
Webinars
Live Training (Online)
In Person
Types of Training
Training Docs
Webinars
Live Training (Online)
In Person
Vendor Details
Company Name
Broadcom
Country
United States
Website
www.broadcom.com/products/mainframe/watchtower-observability
Vendor Details
Company Name
IBM
Founded
1911
Country
United States
Website
www.ibm.com/products/instana
Product Features
Product Features
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Baseline Manager
Diagnostic Tools
Full Transaction Diagnostics
Performance Control
Resource Management
Root-Cause Diagnosis
Server Performance
Trace Individual Transactions
Database Monitoring
Anomaly Detection
Autodiscovery
Capacity Planning
Dashboard
Dependency Tracking
Historical Trend Analysis
Multitenancy
Notifications / Alerts
Performance Monitoring
Permissions / Access Controls
Predictive Analytics
Prioritization
Query Analysis
Resource Optimization
Troubleshooting
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Alerts / Notifications
Application Monitoring
Bandwidth Monitoring
Capacity Planning
Configuration Change Management
Data Movement Monitoring
Health Monitoring
Multi-Platform Support
Performance Monitoring
Point-in-Time Visibility
Reporting / Analytics
Virtual Machine Monitoring
Network Monitoring
Bandwidth Monitoring
Baseline Manager
Diagnostic Tools
IP Address Monitoring
Internet Usage Monitoring
Real Time Analytics
Resource Management
SLA Monitoring
Server Monitoring
Uptime Monitoring
Web Traffic Reporting
System Monitoring
Alerts / Notifications
Antivirus Management
Data Backup / Recovery
Device Monitoring
Inventory Management
Patch Management
Policy-based Automation
Remote Monitoring
Reporting / Analytics
Risk Analysis
Server Monitoring
Service Configuration Management
Website Monitoring
Availability Testing
Event Logs
Event-Based Notifications
FTP Monitoring
Mail Server Monitoring
Maintenance Scheduling
Performance Metrics
Real Time Monitoring
Transaction Monitoring
Uptime Reporting