IBM Instana vs. Retrace
| 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) |
 Retrace | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | Retrace (formerly APM+) is a lightweight Application Performance Management solution. Retrace gives developers continuous, real-time analysis through a combination of code-level visibility with in-line log and error data. Retrace helps identify top performance offenders by analyzing top page requests, top SQL queries, and top external web services. | $99 up to 3 servers, 500,000 traces, and 1,000,000 logs |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.5 | 8.0 |
| Usability | 8.3 | - |
| Support Rating | 4.5 | - |