IBM Instana Observability

Full-stack observability powered by agentic AI

Overview

Proactively solve issues across your application stack

IBM Instana Observability provides automated, AI-powered, observability with simplicity at its core for DevOps and engineering teams.

Instana automatically discovers and instruments applications and infrastructure, delivering real-time, full-stack visibility through an easy-to-use UI.

Features

Scale with your business without retooling

Look inside your IT domain

Access high fidelity full-stack data in real time—updated every second—to identify, trace and fix issues before they impact users. Get upstream and downstream visibility of application and infrastructure environments for over 300 platforms.

Troubleshoot and govern agentic and LLM-powered applications

Instana automatically discovers and maps GenAI workflows and agents, connecting prompts, outputs, tokens, latency, cost and errors to full-stack context so teams can troubleshoot AI-driven services faster and control spend.

Accelerate incident investigation

Investigate and resolve IT incidents faster with agentic AI. Eliminate manual work like runbook creation and incident summarization.

IBM Instana Intelligent Incident Investigation UI dashboard screenshot

Unlock OpenTelemetry-powered observability for any IT environment

IBM Instana enhances OpenTelemetry (OTel) by seamlessly integrating with the OpenTelemetry Collector, ensuring comprehensive monitoring for microservices and cloud-native applications. With advanced telemetry tools, businesses can optimize performance, reduce downtime and gain real-time insights into system health.

Instana OpenTelemetry UI dashboard screenshot

Real-time discovery with no manual effort

Automatically detect changes across applications and infrastructure, and map dependencies in real-time. Get a live, contextual view of how everything connects so you can trace issues, understand impact and fix issues fast.

Instana UI dashboard screenshot showing API service maps

Reduce noise. Act on what matters.

Cut through alert fatigue with intelligent alerts that surface only meaningful issues. Automatically prioritize critical events and guide faster troubleshooting so teams spend less time reacting and more time resolving.

IBM Instana Smart Alerts UI dashboard screenshot
Use cases

How Instana delivers value

From applications to infrastructure, Instana helps provide end-to-end monitoring and remediation of your IT stack.

Application monitoring
Digital monitoring
Cloud-native monitoring
Infrastructure monitoring
Case studies

See Instana in action

SIXT

By automating end-to-end infrastructure, IBM was able to help SIXT increase reliability, availability and serviceability of their products and services, resulting in a much better customer experience.

70%
decrease in problem detection and resolution time
50%
faster detection of availability anomalies
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Integrations

Over 300 supported technologies

Out-of-the box integrations with no plug-ins or application restarts, as well as support for third-party technologies and IBM proprietary software and infrastructure.

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Pricing
Take the next step

Unlock cloud-native application performance with AI-driven automated observability.

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