Instana Blog

2018 marks the year of Democratization of APM - a shift that allows Application Performance Management tools to be used by any - and every - DevOps team member.

Instana CEO Mirko Novakovic discusses Instana's vision for the future of IT Operations and Application Performance Management in the wake of the companies Series B funding announcement.

When we launched Instana, we called our solution APM 3.0 since it led the way to the third generation of APM tools. Find out why we now call it Dynamic APM.

Introducing Instana's Dynamic Focus, which helps users hone in on specific groupings or collections of any entities, from hosts to technology platforms, errors and transactions.

Last week at re:invent, Amazon announced the preview of AWS X-Ray – a new service to analyze and debug distributed systems. You could feel the shock of established APM vendors in their booths at the

Modern Microservice and Container based applications have attributes that introduce challenges for operating and monitoring these environments:

Microservices have been pioneered by companies like Netflix, Amazon and Google and are the successor of SOA. New applications from startups and enterprises are using this new architecture style, which

In Part 1 of this blog series about monitoring microservices, we looked at the building blocks of microservice-based applications and the necessity of automatically discovering all components and thei

Application Performance Management (APM) first came to market around 2000 when the Java language and the “3-tier architecture” was becoming dominant.