Thought Leadership

Instana is changing the way IT organizations think about performance monitoring with an automatic approach to Application and Infrastructure monitoring.
Scaling Microservices: Identifying Performance Bottlenecks
This third post in our Scaling Microservice series examines performance bottlenecks, specifically how to identify them - and of course, how to eliminate them.
Scaling Microservices: General Strategy
Our first post in the Microservice Scaling series - discussing general design and operational strategy for developing, building and deploying scalable microservice applications.
Observability vs. Monitoring
You've probably been hearing about this new buzzword - Observability - and how it's replacing Visibility in the monitoring world. We break through the confusion and help demystify observability, explaining why Ops and Dev are interested in it, and why a monitoring tool with all the right visibility trumps observability every time.
Mind Blowing EUM from Instana
Read about Instana's incredible new EUM capabilities. See how Instana traces, records, and analyzes every...
Recursive Monitoring: Instana Uses Instana to Monitor Instana
Instana is a SaaS provider of Application Performance Monitoring software. We run a massive data...
12 Days of Xmas Open Source Technologies
Christmas is an amazing time and spending time with the family is often considered the...
Problems solved and problems created by Kubernetes
Kubernetes can be a great tool for automating many aspects of deploying and managing production...
Monitoring Applications on Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) is a CNCF compliant Kubernetes As a Service (KaaS) offering for...
Distributed Tracing the Easy Way!
Distributed tracing is a critical requirement for effective microservices monitoring. You can implement distributed tracing...
Scaling Microservices Series: Introduction
The first in a series of blog posts summarizing application scaling strategies for SREs, DevOps...
Open Source Microservices Monitoring is a Terrible Idea
APM Experts and Bernd Harzog have published new research - and a companion whitepaper -...
20 Developer Experts to Follow on Twitter
Modern developers need to know more than one programming language or framework. For that reason...
5 Things You Can Hate About Go
(But Don’t Have To)
Go is a powerful programming language that has seen strong developer adoption, but many constructs...
The Challenge of Monitoring
“Across The Stack”
Learn what monitoring across the stack means. Full stack monitoring has become a critical capability...
Modernizing APM for DevOps and Beyond
Our Guest Blogger, angel investor Ameet Patel, describes what makes Instana different, and why he...
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