G2 Vendor Directory

IBM Instana vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

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

MetricIBM Instana

by IBM

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

by Cisco

Overall rating4.44.3
Review count48549
Ease of use8.88.0
Ease of setup9.08.3
Quality of support8.88.8
Meets requirements8.88.6
NPS60.253751.020408
Small Business21.9%18.4%
Mid-Market41.6%36.7%
Enterprise36.5%44.9%
Total page views2,195167
Total LLM citations14,434682

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 Infrastructure Monitoring

SignalFx is the only real-time cloud monitoring platform for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. The platform discovers and collects metrics across every component in your cloud environment, replacing traditional point tools and providing real-time predictive analytics. The massively scalable SignalFx architecture is optimized for cloud infrastructure and microservices-based applications, It provides powerful visualization, proactive alerting, and collaborative triage capabilities for organizations of all sizes.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Log Management
  • Monitoring
  • Dashboards
  • Monitoring Capabilities