Instana Alternatives

Instana is described as 'Is Dynamic APM for Microservice Management. Instana delivers real-time impact analysis, operational health, and quality of service visibility' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Instana for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, Self-Hosted, SaaS and Windows apps. The best Instana alternative is Datadog. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try New Relic or Glimpse. Other great apps like Instana are Sysdig, Dynatrace, SigNoz and Jaeger.

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  1. Datadog icon

    Datadog

     77 likes

    Monitor and visualize your IT and DevOps environments seamlessly with over 120 integrations, enabling real-time insight across on-premise and cloud deployments. Utilize robust analytics, graphing, and correlation tools for error logging and network monitoring. Improve collaboration and proactive IT management.

    231 Datadog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    • Datadog is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Instana.

    • Datadog is the most popular commercial alternative to Instana.

    • Datadog is Paid and ProprietaryInstana is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. New Relic icon

    New Relic

     29 likes

    Pinpoint and solve performance issues in your Ruby, Java, .NET, PHP and Python apps with real user, application and server monitoring.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • New Relic is the most popular free alternative to Instana.

    • New Relic is Freemium and ProprietaryInstana is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Glimpse icon

    Glimpse

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    Providing real time diagnostics & insights to the fingertips of hundreds of thousands of developers daily.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • Glimpse is the most popular Open Source alternative to Instana.

    • Glimpse is Free and Open SourceInstana is Paid and Proprietary
  5. Sysdig icon

    Sysdig

     12 likes

    Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Dynatrace icon

    Dynatrace

     38 likes

    Dynatrace combines the industry’s broadest observability and runtime application security with predictive, causal, and generative in a unified platform to deliver answers and intelligent automation from data.

    67 Dynatrace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    Dynatrace Dashboard
     

    • Dynatrace is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Instana.

    • Dynatrace is Paid and ProprietaryInstana is also Paid and Proprietary
  7. SigNoz icon

    SigNoz

     18 likes

    Open source observability platform. SigNoz helps developers find issues in their deployed applications & solve them quickly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    • SigNoz is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Instana.

    • SigNoz is Free and Open SourceInstana is Paid and Proprietary
  9. Jaeger icon

    Jaeger

     3 likes

    Jaeger, inspired by Dapper and OpenZipkin, is a distributed tracing platform created by Uber Technologies and donated to Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It can be used for monitoring microservices-based distributed systems:

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    AppDynamics

     2 likes

    The AppDynamics platform gives today’s software-defined businesses the ability to analyze and optimize digital business performance in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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  11. RapidSpike icon

    RapidSpike

     10 likes

    RapidSpike is a Digital Experience Monitoring Platform that interacts with your online platforms exactly as your customers do. It collects data across your digital ecosystem to help you improve a fast, reliable digital customer experience.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • RapidSpike is the most popular SaaS alternative to Instana.

    • RapidSpike is Paid and ProprietaryInstana is also Paid and Proprietary
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    dbsnoop

     5 likes

    dbsnOOp is a database monitoring and management platform based on artificial intelligence to determine patterns and analyze trends to help our customers to manage their databases and step ahead for problems and outages.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    System Operation Main Metrics
     
  13. SnappyFlow icon

    SnappyFlow

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    Simplified Monitoring for Complex Applications Achieve deep observability, strong correlation and improved resolution time for Cloud Native Applications.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Easy API and endpoint observability through Synthetics
     
  14. 2 Steps icon

    2 Steps

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    2 Steps allows organisations using Splunk for IT operations to monitor mobile apps, websites, Windows applications and mainframe software interfaces without setting up coding or scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Splunk
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