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IBM Instana vs. Splunk AppDynamics

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

MetricIBM Instana

by IBM

Splunk AppDynamics

by Cisco

Overall rating4.44.3
Review count485375
Ease of use8.88.7
Ease of setup9.08.2
Quality of support8.88.5
Meets requirements8.88.8
NPS60.253753.134328
Small Business21.9%16.6%
Mid-Market41.6%27.8%
Enterprise36.5%55.6%
Total page views2,195380
Total LLM citations14,4344,736

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

Splunk AppDynamics

Powered by Cisco, AppDynamics is on a mission to help companies see their technology through the lens of the business so they can work as one to prioritize what matters most. We’re reinventing the observability space and simplifying the challenge of digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

Pros

  • Versatility
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Monitoring
  • Log Management
  • User Interface
  • Automation