IBM Instana vs. SolarWinds Observability

SolarWinds Observability

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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)
SolarWinds Observability	N/A	N/A	SolarWinds Observability is a SaaS offering purpose-built to enable DevOps teams to have unified and correlated end-to-end visibility across the technology stack, from the infrastructure, database and application to the end-user experience. It helps organizations meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and user satisfaction service-level objectives (SLOs). The observability offering helps make it easy to understand and has holistic oversight into service delivery and the individual component…	$60 per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)

Pricing

IBM Instana

SolarWinds Observability

Logs: $60
per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)
Digital Experience Observability - Synthetics: $120
per year Packs of 10 uptime checks
Infrastructure Observability: $180
per year Per Host (Containers 10:1 Host)
Network Observability: $180
per year Per active network device (With an IP address)
Application Observability: $330
per year Application Instance
Database Observability: $840
per year Per physical or virtual database instance

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

No setup fee

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*Log retention available in 1, 7, 15, 30, and 60 days (for more than 60 days retention, talk to sales).