G2 Vendor Directory

Last9 vs. IBM Instana

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

MetricLast9

by Last9

IBM Instana

by IBM

Overall rating4.74.4
Review count51485
Ease of use9.08.8
Ease of setup9.39.0
Quality of support9.68.8
Meets requirements9.28.8
NPS84.31372560.2537
Small Business31.4%21.9%
Mid-Market66.7%41.6%
Enterprise2.0%36.5%
Total page views4642,195
Total LLM citations1,81214,434

Last9

Last9 is the preferred single pane of observability for Logs, Traces, Metrics, built for modern engineering teams and high cardinality environments. — OpenTelemetry native, Cloud Native and Prometheus compatible, with support for 100+ integrations — Simple pricing model with a predictable “pay for what you use” plan, no per host or per user billing ——— Application developers, infrastructure engineers, DevOps & SREs, and business users send their Logs, Traces, and Metrics to Last9’s telemetry warehouse to monitor their services and systems and run alerting with anomaly algorithms for

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Reliability
  • Integrations
  • Easy Integrations
  • Log Management

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