Instana Blog

This is the third post in a series on the Life of an SRE at Instana. Check out the first post and second post.

Writing microservices is not only using frameworks, but using patterns like Circuit Breakers and Timeouts to secure communication between services. See the concepts and how they can be used together.

Instana’s 1 second metrics resolution and auto-detection of components makes it easy to get answers for the most pressing questions when hosts get rebooted without prior notice. 

Writing software systems is easier than ever before. Resilient and fault tolerant systems, however, are still tricky. The major factor to keep in mind, to embrace that failures can and will happen. Re

Instana’s automatic discovery and monitoring of Cassandra nodes and clusters, as well as alerting on change events, makes our daily works as an SRE a lot easier.

Writing concurrent code doesn't have to be hard. Kotlin Co-Routines provide developers with a solution to ease the development of highly concurrent applications or services. Deploying those systems, h

Instana SRE Bastian Spanneberg's thoughts on SREcon EMEA 2019.

Tight integration with best of breed solutions for log aggregation, such as Humio, gives Instana users the freedom to choose how to cover all troubleshooting use cases

Instana’s tight Splunk integration now includes the ability to load up specific logs - and timeframes - based on problems identified by Instana, opening up options for all troubleshooting use cases