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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Instana

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AInstana, 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)

    Splunk AppDynamics

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM InstanaSplunk AppDynamics
    Editions & Modules
    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)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM InstanaSplunk AppDynamics
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM InstanaSplunk AppDynamics
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Instana
    IBM Instana is great for infrastructure monitoring while AppDynamics is ahead in application monitoring
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    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
    Chose IBM Instana
    In terms of flexibility Instana wins by providing the auto-discovery functions that are very precious to my company since they allow monitoring and tracing of the application services even after big infrastructural changes. In this regars, competitors still require to hardwire …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Instana
    Instana is better at call tracing than the previous ones and is cost effective as well. But AppD can do a better job at constructing customised metrics, alert profiles and alert conditions as well, but it misses a lot of important details while tracing a call. At the same time, …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Instana
    Datadog provides a more comprehensive platform, including APM, infrastructure monitoring, and log management.
    AppDynamics like IBM Instana offers end-to-end visibility, APM and business performance monitoring.
    IBM Instana competitive advantage might lie in its automatic …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Instana
    AppDynamics requires a lot of manual configuration for basic API monitoring.
    New Relic is very costly.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Instana
    Better value for the money. Easiest license model. Automatic features included to help installation of agents, continuos discovery of services, dependencies and components, update of agents, smart alerts, tracing without sampling and a low step learning curve
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Dynatrace is the first and AppDynamics second
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics is more a graphical representation of data, where as other tools like Splunk shows data in a table format using Query structure. AppDynamics helps is in analyzing system performance, but other tools just help to log the data and send alerts upon manual setting. …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM InstanaSplunk AppDynamics
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of IBM Instana and Splunk AppDynamics
    Feature
    IBM Instana
    -
    Ratings
    Splunk AppDynamics
    8.5
    74 Ratings
    Application monitoring00 Ratings9.474 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.872 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.771 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.971 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.659 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.544 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.842 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM InstanaSplunk AppDynamics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (30 ratings)
    8.6
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    8.5
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)