G2 Vendor Directory

Google Cloud Monitoring vs. IBM Instana

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

MetricGoogle Cloud Monitoring

by Google

IBM Instana

by IBM

Overall rating4.24.4
Review count69485
Ease of use8.88.8
Ease of setup8.19.0
Quality of support8.88.8
Meets requirements8.78.8
NPS49.25373160.2537
Small Business52.2%21.9%
Mid-Market29.0%41.6%
Enterprise18.8%36.5%
Total page views1422,195
Total LLM citations29514,434

Google Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring collects metric data and provides tools that let you monitor and visualize how your applications and services are performing.

Pros

  • Features
  • Scalability
  • Easy Integrations
  • Ease of Use
  • Data Management
  • Speed

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