FortiMonitor vs. IBM Instana

IBM Instana

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FortiMonitor	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	FortiMonitor is a comprehensive, SaaS-based digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform that helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools. It provides visibility into endpoint application performance and digital experience—no matter where the user resides or where the application is hosted. It is based on Panopta, which was acquired by Fortinet in late 2020.	N/A
IBM Instana	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Instana, an IBM company since the December 2020 acquisition, provides APM services for SOA, microservices, containerized applications and Kubernetes, and cloud native applications, as well as discovery and monitoring for IT assets.	$18 per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)

Pricing

FortiMonitor

IBM Instana

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Essentials: $18
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Standard: $75
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Self-Hosted: $93.80
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
FortiMonitor	IBM Instana
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Our simple, usage-based pricing model is ideal whether you have five servers, or 500 hundred. You’ll be charged monthly per the number of instances monitored, and any additional features you’re using, such as CounterMeasures and synthetic checks. Standard Instances - $6/Instance Network Devices - $9/Device Containers - $2/Container

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Community Pulse
	FortiMonitor	IBM Instana
Considered Both Products	FortiMonitor Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Chose FortiMonitor Panopta management from the cloud (remote panel). Easy work on installation. To monitor servers, it is enough for the server to have contact only with the Internet. Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Instana Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana IBM AIX Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana IBM Instana is great for infrastructure monitoring while AppDynamics is ahead in application monitoring Incentivized Helpful? SB Scott Bybee Automation practice lead Chose IBM Instana IBM Turbonomic Incentivized Helpful? FR Francisco Ramos Full Stack Senior Dev. Specialist Chose IBM Instana IBM App Connect, IBM DataPower Gateway and IBM MQ Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana Splunk AppDynamics Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana We chose IBM Instana for its very affordable price, the ease of use of the solution, which was perfectly suited to our needs and specifications, and the feedback from our teams, who had no trouble getting to grips with it in a very short time.The IBM Instana solution is very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana IBM Instana provides 60 seconds granularity whereas the other products use time series data IBM Instana automatically detects the Service Endpoints which helps us trace all the calls pinpointed to service endpoints. IBM Instana provides complete Auto Discovery with no … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana Well again, it comes back to the application monitor. It does a better job than SolarWinds. Incentivized Helpful? MS Mohamed Saad Senior Technical Consultant (IT Operations Mgmt) Chose IBM Instana Automatic application discovery with one agent installation instead of manual configuration for each application and multiply agents for each technology stack. Automatic tracing for application calls without the need to add complex configuration and application instrumentation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana BMC TrueSight Automation for Networks and Dynatrace Incentivized Helpful? MT Mohamed Taha Senior Manager - Performance & Reliability • Information Technology Chose IBM Instana 1- ROI is higher as the budget is much less than other 2- the way of calculating license is much better and fit us and this affect the ROI 3- the ease of implementation Incentivized Helpful? RP Rahul Paspola Software Developer Chose IBM Instana The primary reason we choose IBM Instana was that is was compatible with nearly all of our apps without requiring any modifications to our code. We are really happy that we decided to adopt IBM Instana. Incentivized Helpful? SI Salah-eddine ISMAILI Network System Administrator Chose IBM Instana Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Prometheus Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana because of support and better agents for non containeraized workloads, virtual machines and lpars Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana IBM Instana meet LMRA requirements, as IBM Instana is more useful to deep-dive each transaction from Real-user monitoring itself when compared to other APM's in the market. Also gives more flexibility especially from the support perspective to identify bottlenecks and to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana As a DevOps engineer, I've explored various Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, including New Relic for real-time insights, AppDynamics for code-level visibility, Dynatrace for AI-driven monitoring, Datadog for comprehensive observability, Splunk for log management, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana Splunk is also a wonderful tool for log analysis and operational troubleshooting however auto discovery and dependency flow creation makes Instana standout. We have to do a lot of preprocessing to ingest and format data in Splunk and then write complex queries for gathering the … Incentivized Helpful? VT Vince Tkac Chief Architect Chose IBM Instana IBM Instana is easier to install and get fast results. Incentivized Helpful? GT George Thakur Senior IT Services Manager Chose IBM Instana We chose IBM Instana for several reasons, and the most important one is that we didn't have to make changes in our code for nearly all of our applications for it to work. We are happy with the decision we made to use IBM Instana. Incentivized Helpful? JH Jose Hernandez computer technician Chose IBM Instana We have used them and for the moment we have chosen IBM Instana first of all because of the price because it is accessible and it works in terms of the results we have obtained, also the way of presenting the schemes and the performance of the systems is very good. Incentivized Helpful? PC Petrina Cassano Project Manager Chose IBM Instana Superior value for money, simpler license approach with automated functions (installation, detection, update, and alarm). Nothing can stop IBM Instana's footprints in the international market as it progressively gains strength and grows in the market. With fair and inexpensive … Incentivized Helpful? MB Mayank Bansal SRE Chose IBM Instana New Relic has it's own perks but when it comes to large infrastructure, we always face some issue at stability but IBM Instana never fails here. In my opinion, Inbuilt dashboard and inbuilt alerting feature what makes IBM Instana better than compared to other tools. I think … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana In my experience, they both have independent strengths and shortcomings, though I have found IBM Instana to be much better for general monitoring and setting up alerts to get ahead of any problems. Contrastly, I think humio/falcon has been easier to use when it comes to … Incentivized Helpful? FR Frank Rios Systems Analyst Chose IBM Instana We selected IBM Instana because of better support and other products that complement each other. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Instana We selected IBM Instana because it is more accurate than Datadog. 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User Ratings
	FortiMonitor	IBM Instana
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	4.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	FortiMonitor	IBM Instana
Likelihood to Recommend	It is great for monitoring internet connections. The agent installed on Windows works efficiently and takes up little resources. The method of settling costs is not very clear. There should also be a table with the current list of costs visible. Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	With enterprise IT assets in a multitude of ecosystems, cloud infrastructures and sometimes still left stuck in a legacy on prem architecture, IBM Instana makes it easy to get the right data to drive development and / or DevSecOps processes with tangible input from the target environment itself. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Monitoring from several locations Fast notification Push notifications, SMS and calling Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Collecting Kubernetes and Infra level logs and presenting in easy to understand visuals. Tracing the end-to-end journey of an event and also categorizing by technology and Endpoints Built-in and custom alerts help to monitor almost all of scenarios without much additional configuration. Ability to create Applications to logical group important flows Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Simplifying the interface Simplification of the process, e.g. notifications to Slack Dark mode for panel and dashboard Push notification - should contain more detailed information A nicer looking dashboard Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	I believe that the "live" option in monitoring does not truly update the status in real-time, thus I must manually update to feel comfortable. The call analysis tool might be improved, third-party resources are restricted, and the pricing is slightly more than competitors in comparable categories. Incentivized PC Petrina Cassano Project Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Instana has been able to fulfill our all requirement and provide out of box solution for multiple component like AWS RDS Monitoring and real time alerting setup on basis of that. it is also easy to integrate with other open-source alerting and monitoring tools which makes it easier to incorporate into our solutions Incentivized Mayank Bansal SRE Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	IBM Instana totally alters our monitoring approach since it increases the stability of the system and simplifies the process of problem solving. And since it helps to lower the degree of alert exhaustion that we experience, it is a total game changer for us. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	IBM instana support team is good but when we ask them for support, they keep asking same thing again and again and mostly there is no solution Incentivized Mayank Bansal SRE Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Panopta management from the cloud (remote panel). Easy work on installation. To monitor servers, it is enough for the server to have contact only with the Internet. Multiple channels for sending notifications. Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	As a DevOps engineer, I've explored various Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, including New Relic for real-time insights, AppDynamics for code-level visibility, Dynatrace for AI-driven monitoring, Datadog for comprehensive observability, Splunk for log management, Stackify Retrace for error tracking, and Raygun for crash reporting. Each tool offers distinct features, and the choice depends on specific use cases, technology stacks, and organizational needs. Thorough evaluations, considering factors like ease of use, integration capabilities, and scalability, help in selecting the most suitable APM solution for effective application monitoring in a DevOps environment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Provides high availability of services Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Let's me monitor and pinpoint issues across multiple critical systems and applications that work in tandem, reducing drastically, the time in identifying root cause and solving the issues. Let's me deep dive into issues found with a lot of detailed information about particular requests , and find proper solutions by my own research or even with Gen AI assistant using Watson.x or you could prompt your AI solution of choice as well. All systems fail at some point, so IBM Instana gives stakeholders ease that large complex and critical systems that affect the very livelihood of people is being observed with pinpoint precision and that issues are addressed promptly and with compass pointing north towards the problem's root cause and solutions. Incentivized FR Francisco Ramos Full Stack Senior Dev. Specialist Read full review
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