Instana versus New Relic

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6 reasons to migrate from New Relic to IBM Instana You've relied on New Relic application monitoring but managing cloud-native applications requires a different approach. Download the ebook Understands your most complex cloud-native and hybrid cloud applications

Instana is the enterprise observability platform built to deal with cloud-native applications with its automated full stack approach.

 Captures and stores every trace for every user–at no additional charge

IBM Instana user tracing capture and storage are included for no additional charge to keep costs predictable so you don't have to choose which traces to keep and which ones to throw away.

 Automates the entire application monitoring process

IBM Instana automates every aspect of the performance monitoring cycle including application discovery, monitoring, configuration, dashboards, alerts and troubleshooting.

 Helps predict issues and service incidents before they occur

With Smart Alerts, Instana has broken the time barrier, actually predicting when problems will occur.

 Provides real-time observability data with context

With our Dynamic Graph, Instana understands how every component, metric, trace and profile is related to infrastructure, cloud, services, applications, and to each other.

 Pricing has no surprise costs and is simple, transparent, and all-inclusive

With IBM Instana, pricing is open, simple, and based on the number of hosts you run. The size of those hosts and amount of data you gather has no impact.
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Industry recognition
90% Likelihood to recommend vs. New Relic 86%

"Instana has really made life easier. After trying super costly APM like AppDynamics and buggy New Relic, IBM Instana makes things easier."

 90% Ease of use vs. New Relic 85%

"I have tried other APMs like New Relic and AppDynamics, but IBM Instana stands out."

 90% Ease of Quality of support vs. New Relic 85%

"We looked at other solutions alongside Instana and the ease of use and quick install and pricing fit us very well."
Resources Buying APM was a good decision (so is getting rid of it)

You made a great decision choosing an APM solution like New Relic to monitor your legacy application environments, but the reasons that made you initially go with New Relic are the exact same reasons why you need to move onto Instana for your modern applications.

 In observability "automation" is spelled I-N-S-T-A-N-A

IBM Instana automates every aspect of the performance monitoring lifecycle. It automates installation, configuration, application discovery, dashboards, profiling, alerts, troubleshooting, and change detection.
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