IBM Instana Observability

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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.

Instana also 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

Proactively improve performance and efficiency

Powered by IBM Turbonomic,  you can automatically optimize application performance while reducing wastage.

Turbonomic recommendations to remediate an ongoing incident

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

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 Collector diagram