IBM Instana vs. IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 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) |
 IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect | N/A | N/A | A connector that provides transaction tracing information from z/OS subsystems to enterprise-wide Observability solutions by using OpenTelemetry. By tracing the flow of hybrid application spanning public cloud to mainframe, the user can eliminate IBM Z blind zones in an enterprise-wide observability strategy. | N/A |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.5 | - |
| Usability | 8.3 | - |
| Support Rating | 4.5 | - |