G2 Vendor Directory

Chronosphere vs. IBM Instana

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricChronosphere

by Palo Alto Networks

IBM Instana

by IBM

Overall rating4.54.4
Review count20485
Ease of use8.48.8
Ease of setup8.89.0
Quality of support9.68.8
Meets requirements9.18.8
NPS6060.2537
Small Business10.0%21.9%
Mid-Market25.0%41.6%
Enterprise65.0%36.5%
Total page views2882,195
Total LLM citations1,97614,434

Chronosphere

Chronosphere is the only observability platform that puts you back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud-native complexity, delivering increased business confidence. Chronosphere is an efficient, reliable and flexible SaaS solution, built for scaling cloud-native engineering organizations. Teams at startups to well-known global brands in the Fortune 500 around the world trust Chronosphere to help them operate scalable, highly available, and resilient applications.

Pros

    IBM Instana

    IBM Instana, now part of the Concert platform, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by DevOps to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline. IBM Instana is available on AWS Marketplace.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Monitoring
    • Real-time Monitoring
    • Monitoring Capabilities
    • Easy Setup
    • Insights