IBM Instana sets the gold standard for incident prevention, offering automated full-stack visibility, 1-second data granularity, and 3-second notifications.
In today’s complex and ever-changing cloud environments, even an hour of downtime can lead to six-figure losses or more. Traditional application performance monitoring (APM) tools often fall short—they’re too slow to keep up, lack the breadth to provide actionable context, and are typically reserved for super users who require extensive training to operate them.
IBM Instana Observability goes beyond traditional APM by democratizing access to observability. Teams across DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, ITOps, and Development can seamlessly access the data they need, enriched with contextual insights. Instana delivers high-fidelity data with 1-second granularity, end-to-end tracing, and comprehensive visibility into logical, physical, and mobile dependencies spanning applications, web services, and infrastructure.
At its core, Instana Dynamic APM leverages an agent-based architecture that uses sensors—lightweight, automated programs designed to monitor specific entities. A single agent per host, deployed either as a standalone process or a container.