groundcover vs. IBM Instana
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 groundcover | N/A | N/A | A monitoring solution for applications run on cloud, presented as a full stack cloud-native APM platform for observability. It leverages a proprietary sensor to unlock granularity on applications, eliminating the need for costly code changes and development cycles to ensure monitoring continuity. Infrastructure Monitoring- Offers visibility into cloud infrastructure performance at any scale, and centralizes metrics in one place. Application Performance Monitoring… | $20 per month Per node |
 IBM Instana | Score8 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. | $75 per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS) |
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| Editions & Modules | No answers on this topic |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | groundcover breaks the customary volume-based pricing model, allowing teams to scale away, at a fraction of the cost. * Predictable price, based on nodes, not data.* | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | - | 8.5 |
| Usability | - | 8.3 |
| Support Rating | - | 4.5 |