Improving Application Performance
with IBM Instana Observability


Amplify your application performance monitoring with industry-leading AI-powered automation capabilities and APM tools

 

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DNA IT are introducing innovative new automation and monitoring services, that optimise the cost and performance of your applications and infrastructure.

Using IBM’s market leading automation and AIOps platforms – we can manage your production or development systems in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Data Centres or on-premise.

All with fixed monthly costs, and complete flexibility.

A key component in our service is the IBM Instana Observability platform. This is a fully automated enterprise observability platform that delivers the context needed to take intelligent actions and ensure optimum application performance.

IBM Instana ingests all metrics, traces every request, and profiles every process in cloud-native, hybrid, and on-prem environments. It correlates and analyzes the data for the DevOps teams to optimize their application performance and accelerate their pipeline.

Digital transformation is accelerating. Is your application environment ready?

Take this short observability assessment to see if you have the right tools in place to thrive in today’s digital-first environment.

Discover the power and ease of use of IBM Instana in a preconfigured live Application Performance Monitoring sandbox. The Instana sandbox is automatically configured to enable you to try out the application for yourself, at no charge.

Developers are faced with a growing challenge: How to troubleshoot software that may be compromised in many disparate services running in a variety of languages and platforms? In this eBook, you will learn everything a Developer should know from various areas of observability and monitoring from a developer’s perspective.

Observability for Developers

After looking at several application monitoring and observability vendors, PathMotion chose Instana for its ability to automatically visualize and monitor the performance of microservice architectures and software running on container orchestration platforms, like Kubernetes.

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    IBM Instana FAQs

    IBM Instana is a leading observability and application performance monitoring (APM) platform that gives businesses real-time insights into the health, performance and dependencies of modern cloud and on-premise environments. With Instana, organisations can automatically discover services and infrastructure, trace transactions, detect anomalies and optimise performance across distributed systems.

    DNA IT Solutions helps Irish businesses implement and manage IBM Instana to monitor applications, microservices and cloud resources, enabling faster troubleshooting, stronger reliability and better operational decision-making. Instana supports a wide range of technologies and provides dashboards, alerting and analytics that help teams maintain performance and deliver reliable digital experiences.

     

    1. What is IBM Instana?

    IBM Instana is an application performance monitoring (APM) and observability platform that automatically tracks the performance, health and interactions of applications and infrastructure.


    2. Why should businesses use Instana?

    Instana provides real-time visibility across services, enabling faster troubleshooting, performance optimisation and reduced downtime for complex environments.


    3. What does Instana monitor?

    Instana monitors applications, services, microservices, containers, infrastructure and distributed systems to give a complete view of performance and dependencies.


    4. Is Instana suitable for cloud environments?

    Yes. Instana supports cloud-native and hybrid environments, giving visibility into cloud workloads, Kubernetes clusters and containerised applications.


    5. Does Instana provide real-time performance insights?

    Yes. Instana provides automatic, real-time monitoring and tracing so teams can see performance data and anomalies as they happen.


    6. Can Instana help with root cause analysis?

    Yes. With distributed tracing and dependency maps, Instana helps identify the root causes of performance issues quickly.


    7. Is Instana suitable for small and large businesses?

    Yes. Instana scales to support organisations of all sizes that need performance visibility across applications and infrastructure.


    8. What technologies does Instana support?

    Instana supports a broad range of technologies including Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, Kubernetes, Docker and more.


    9. Does DNA IT help implement Instana?

    Yes. DNA IT assesses your environment, deploys Instana, configures monitoring dashboards and alerts, and provides ongoing management support.


    10. Can Instana improve operational efficiency?

    Yes. By providing performance insights, alerting and visibility into system health, Instana helps teams work more efficiently and reduce mean time to resolution.