Top Instana Alternatives and Competitors
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Monitor any application, service, or request with Instana Application Performance Monitoring.
Common Features
Transaction Request Performance | Application Request Tracing | Application Logging | Error Reporting | Real User Monitoring | Code Performance Monitoring | Dependency Tracking | Server Monitoring | Application Metric Reporting | Scalability | Application Discovery | Automated Diagnostics | Domain-Centric AI/ML | Synthetic Monitoring (RUM) | Non-Commodity Operating Systems | Domain-Agnostic AI/ML | Enterprise Cloud Platform Support | Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment
8.6
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Score
+92
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Footprint
37
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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Instana
Compare how Instana stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.
Dynatrace
Dynatrace
9.0
Composite
Score
+96
Emotional
Footprint
82
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Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, Dynatrace is:
More Innovative
More Caring
Better at Training
More Inspiring
More Reliable
More Efficient
The Dynatrace software intelligence platform monitors web scale application environments down to each individual transaction—with no gaps or blind spots—including front end, application performance, infrastructure, containers, and cloud.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine Applications Manager
8.9
Composite
Score
+98
Emotional
Footprint
27
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Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, ManageEngine Applications Manager is:
Better at Support
More Caring
Easier to Customize
More Efficient
More Transparent
More Respectful
ManageEngine Applications Manager provides deep-dive application performance monitoring with byte-code instrumentation, infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience monitoring from a single console. This allows IT teams to gain holistic visibility into transactions, isolate real-time issues, and deliver flawless end user experiences.
eG Innovations
eG Enterprise
8.8
Composite
Score
+98
Emotional
Footprint
34
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Compared to Instana, eG Enterprise is:
More Caring
More Efficient
More Innovative
More Transparent
More Respectful
More Reliable
eG Enterprise is a total performance management solution that provides automated monitoring, diagnosis, and reporting to troubleshoot application slowdowns, user experience issues, network outages, virtualization bottlenecks, server failures, storage hotspots, and more. eG Enterprise uses a combination of agent-based and agentless approach to monitor the health and performance of the entire IT infrastructure from application code to bare metal across physical, virtual and cloud, and hybrid IT environments.
New Relic, Inc.
New Relic
8.8
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
77
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, New Relic is:
Better at Training
More Innovative
Easier to Customize
More Efficient
More Caring
Less Transparent
New Relic’s SaaS-based Application Performance Monitoring helps you build, deploy, and maintain great web software.
Cisco Systems
AppDynamics
8.7
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
93
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, AppDynamics is:
More Respectful
Better at Training
Better at Integrating
More Caring
Less Transparent
Harder to Use
AppDynamics APM automatically discovers, maps, and visualizes your critical customer journeys through each application service and infrastructure dependency. Teams have a single source of truth to focus on end-to-end performance in the context of the customer experience, instead of monitoring individual services.
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Azure Monitor
8.7
Composite
Score
+90
Emotional
Footprint
229
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Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, Microsoft Azure Monitor is:
Better at Training
More Respectful
More Innovative
Easier to Customize
Less Transparent
Less Inspiring
Collect, analyse and act on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises environments. Azure Monitor helps you maximise performance and availability of your applications and proactively identify problems in seconds.
Netreo
Stackify Retrace
8.5
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
66
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, Stackify Retrace is:
Better at Training
More Respectful
Better at Integrating
Less Inspiring
Less Transparent
Harder to Use
Stackify APM+ moves beyond traditional APM solutions and gives you immediate, real-time code-level visibility allowing developers to easily identity top performance offenders and fix issues before they impact the business performance or customer satisfaction.
Datadog
Datadog
8.1
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
26
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, Datadog is:
More Respectful
More Caring
Better at Training
More Efficient
Less Transparent
Less Inspiring
Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization.
Splunk
Splunk APM
7.8
Composite
Score
+84
Emotional
Footprint
50
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, Splunk APM is:
Less Transparent
Less Inspiring
Worse at Integrating
Harder to Use
Less Caring
Less Efficient
Splunk ITSI provides a view of the high-level health and performance of applications and services. It also lets you dive deeper in investigations to helps predict outages and find the root cause of a problem faster. With machine learning capabilities, you can detect patterns to help baseline and automatically adapt behaviors for better monitoring and incident prediction.
OpenText Corporation
OpenText APM
7.6
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
48
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, OpenText APM is:
More Efficient
Easier to Customize
Less Innovative
Harder to Use
Less Inspiring
Worse at Integrating
OpenText™ (formerly Micro Focus APM) Application Performance Management (APM) Solutions allow you to isolate problems real-time for all of your applications whether on-premise, cloud, or mobile. OpenText APM Solutions are also available with a flexible delivery model to best fit your needs. Choose from any combination of on-premise, SaaS, or hybrid to suit your existing platform and business model.
SolarWinds
SolarWinds AppOptics
6.8
Composite
Score
+77
Emotional
Footprint
68
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Instana, SolarWinds AppOptics is:
Less Transparent
Less Efficient
Less Inspiring
Harder to Implement
Less Reliable
Harder to Use
Solarwinds AppOptics provides real-time visibility into any application by collecting both high-fidelity metrics and detailed transaction traces.