IBM Instana Observability

Full-stack observability powered by agentic AI

Overview

Proactively solve issues across your application stack

IBM Instana Observability provides automated, AI-powered, observability with simplicity at its core for DevOps and engineering teams.

Instana automatically discovers and instruments applications and infrastructure, delivering real-time, full-stack visibility through an easy-to-use UI.

Features

Scale with your business without retooling

Look inside your IT domain

Access high fidelity full-stack data in real time—updated every second—to identify, trace and fix issues before they impact users. Get upstream and downstream visibility of application and infrastructure environments for over 300 platforms.

Instana also automatically discovers and maps GenAI workflows and agents, connecting prompts, outputs, tokens, latency, cost and errors to full-stack context so teams can troubleshoot AI-driven services faster and control spend.

Accelerate incident investigation

Investigate and resolve IT incidents faster with agentic AI. Eliminate manual work like runbook creation and incident summarization.

IBM Instana Intelligent Incident Investigation UI dashboard screenshot

Proactively improve performance and efficiency

Powered by IBM Turbonomic,  you can automatically optimize application performance while reducing wastage.

Turbonomic recommendations to remediate an ongoing incident

Real-time discovery with no manual effort

Automatically detect changes across applications and infrastructure, and map dependencies in real-time. Get a live, contextual view of how everything connects so you can trace issues, understand impact and fix issues fast.

Instana UI dashboard screenshot showing API service maps

Unlock OpenTelemetry-powered observability for any IT environment

IBM Instana enhances OpenTelemetry (OTel) by seamlessly integrating with the OpenTelemetry Collector, ensuring comprehensive monitoring for microservices and cloud-native applications. With advanced telemetry tools, businesses can optimize performance, reduce downtime and gain real-time insights into system health.

Instana OpenTelemetry Collector diagram
Use cases

How Instana delivers value

From applications to infrastructure, Instana helps provide end-to-end monitoring and remediation of your IT stack.

Application monitoring
Digital experience monitoring
Cloud-native monitoring
Infrastructure monitoring
Case studies

See Instana in action

SIXT

By automating end-to-end infrastructure, IBM was able to help SIXT increase reliability, availability and serviceability of their products and services, resulting in a much better customer experience.

70%
decrease in problem detection and resolution time
50%
faster detection of availability anomalies
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Integrations

Over 300 supported technologies

Out-of-the box integrations with no plug-ins or application restarts, as well as support for third-party technologies and IBM proprietary software and infrastructure.

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Pricing

All-inclusive with multiple options

IBM® Instana® is available in two options: Essentials (infratructure) or Standard (full-stack observability).

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Resources

Additional insights for informed decisions

Explore demos, documentation, training and expert insights to help you learn, evaluate and get more value from IBM Maximo.

Reduce noise. Act on what matters.
Cut through alert fatigue with intelligent alerts that surface only meaningful issues. Automatically prioritize critical events and guide faster troubleshooting so teams spend less time reacting and more time resolving.
IBM Instana Observability
Gain AI-powered, real-time, automated full-stack observability.
IDC and IBM webinar
Decision-Making at Machine Scale: How Agentic AI is Evolving Observability.
Digital experience monitoring with Instana
Watch this video to learn how you can improve your overall digital experience in just minutes with Instana’s mobile, web and end user monitoring.
Reduce noise. Act on what matters.
Cut through alert fatigue with intelligent alerts that surface only meaningful issues. Automatically prioritize critical events and guide faster troubleshooting so teams spend less time reacting and more time resolving.
Troubleshoot and govern agentic and LLM-powered applications
Instana automatically discovers and maps GenAI workflows and agents, connecting prompts, outputs, tokens, latency, cost and errors to full-stack context so teams can troubleshoot AI-driven services faster and control spend.
Witness the real-time insights, intelligent automation, and actionable data that IBM Instana brings to your digital ecosystem.
Take the next step

Unlock cloud-native application performance with AI-driven automated observability.

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