G2 Vendor Directory

Hosted Graphite vs. IBM Instana

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

MetricHosted Graphite

by MetricFire

IBM Instana

by IBM

Overall rating4.64.4
Review count13485
Ease of use9.18.8
Ease of setup9.69.0
Quality of support9.88.8
Meets requirements9.48.8
NPS69.23076960.2537
Small Business38.5%21.9%
Mid-Market61.5%41.6%
Enterprise0.0%36.5%
Total page views482,195
Total LLM citations2714,434

Hosted Graphite

Great systems are not just built. They are monitored. MetricFire is a managed observability platform that helps teams monitor production systems with clean dashboards and actionable alerts. Delivering signal, not noise. Without the operational burden of self-hosting. MetricFire provides cloud-based server and application monitoring, which scales from hundreds of unique metrics right up to millions of metrics at the Enterprise level.

Pros

  • Customer Support
  • Monitoring Ease
  • Ease of Use
  • Cloud Services
  • Easy Integrations
  • Alerting Systems

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