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Splunk APM vs. IBM Instana

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

MetricSplunk APM

by Splunk

IBM Instana

by IBM

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count20485
Ease of use8.88.8
Ease of setup8.69.0
Quality of support9.38.8
Meets requirements9.18.8
NPS70.58823560.2537
Small Business10.0%21.9%
Mid-Market20.0%41.6%
Enterprise70.0%36.5%
Total page views852,195
Total LLM citations5614,434

Splunk APM

Splunk APM is critical to help provide visibility and context into your apps and services as your environment scales. Splunk APM provides the most advanced solution for engineers who build and troubleshoot modern applications; with full fidelity trace analysis to provide context across complex cloud and microservice environments, AI directed troubleshooting and high cardinality to identify and resolve problems faster, AlwaysOn Profiling to provide code level visibility of service bottlenecks, and OpenTelemetry standardization to provide greater flexibility and control as you embrace new

Pros

  • Customer Understanding
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Error Tracking
  • Product Improvement
  • Data Management
  • Customer Support

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