G2 Vendor Directory

Google Cloud Console vs. IBM Instana

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

MetricGoogle Cloud Console

by Google

IBM Instana

by IBM

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count99485
Ease of use8.98.8
Ease of setup8.89.0
Quality of support8.68.8
Meets requirements9.08.8
NPS59.37560.2537
Small Business46.9%21.9%
Mid-Market35.7%41.6%
Enterprise17.3%36.5%
Total page views2592,195
Total LLM citations1,22614,434

Google Cloud Console

Your integrated Google Cloud Platform management console. Manage and get insights into everything that powers your cloud application — including web applications, data analysis, virtual machines, datastore, databases, networking, and developer services. The Google Cloud console helps you deploy, scale, and diagnose production issues in a simple web-based interface. Search to quickly find resources and connect to instances via SSH in the browser. Handle DevOps workflows on the go with powerful native iOS and Android applications.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • User Interface
  • Dashboard Quality
  • Navigation Ease
  • Flexibility
  • Scalability

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