IBM Instana vs. StackState
| 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) |
 StackState | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | StackState is an observability solution that helps enterprises decrease downtime and prevent outages by breaking down the silos between existing monitoring tools and tracking changes in dependencies, relationships, and configuration over time. The system relates these changes to incidents, understanding the precise change that is the root cause of an issue. The vendor states StackState clients realize decreases in mean-time-to-repair (MTTR), fewer outages, and lower costs associated with… | $15 per month per host |
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| Additional Details | — | Pricing includes 10 components per host. If the total number of components exceeds the total number of hosts multiplied by 10, additional components cost $1.50 per component per month (billed annually) | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.5 | 8.3 |
| Usability | 8.3 | 7.6 |
| Support Rating | 4.5 | 8.7 |