G2 Vendor Directory

Google Cloud Observability vs. IBM Instana

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

MetricGoogle Cloud Observability

by Google

IBM Instana

by IBM

Overall rating4.34.4
Review count99485
Ease of use8.88.8
Ease of setup9.19.0
Quality of support8.58.8
Meets requirements8.88.8
NPS46.98795260.2537
Small Business21.2%21.9%
Mid-Market42.4%41.6%
Enterprise36.4%36.5%
Total page views1162,195
Total LLM citations26014,434

Google Cloud Observability

Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Cloud Platform and AWS

Pros

  • Log Management
  • Cloud Services
  • Tracing Tools

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