I don’t think we could have gotten to a highly distributed, container-based system like our next-gen platform without Instana.
Instana’s Pricing is Simple and Transparent
All the Value. Half the Cost. No Surprises!
Application Performance Management
(Includes Infrastructure Quality Monitoring)
SaaS
$75
Per host / Per month
(government taxes as applicable)
- Unlimited Number of Users
- 250+ Supported Technologies
- Minimum Order Quantity of 10 Hosts
Self-hosted
$101
Per host / Per month
(government taxes as applicable)
- Deployment On-Prem or Cloud
- Unlimited Number of Users
- 250+ Supported Technologies
- Minimum Order Quantity of 10 Hosts
Infrastructure Quality Management
SaaS
$20
Per host / Per month
(government taxes as applicable)
- Unlimited Number of Users
- 250+ Supported Technologies
- Minimum Order Quantity of 10 Hosts
Self-hosted
$27
Per host / Per month
(government taxes as applicable)
- Deployment On-Prem or Cloud
- Unlimited Number of Users
- 250+ Supported Technologies
- Minimum Order Quantity of 10 Hosts
For countries outside the United States, please verify pricing with your IBM representative.
$75
Per host / Per month / Billed Annually
While the industry average APM solution costs $150+ per month (this doesn’t include unpredictable variable costs), Instana delivers all the value and all the power at a fraction of the cost.
Drop-in Visibility
Start monitoring in minutes, install Instana’s host agent and all components are automatically discovered
Zero-effort Maintenance
Auto-update keeps Agent always on most recent version
Optional Upgrade Control
Maintain control of versions to work with every IT Policy
Distributed Tracing
Java, Kotlin, .NET & .NET Core, Go, Node.js, GraphQL, PHP, Python, Scala, Ruby, and more
Analyzed Traces & Calls
Real-time machine learning identifies anomalous requests
No Sampling
100% of Requests are traced, analyzed and stored
Custom Metrics
Unlimited custom metrics included
Service Dependency Map
Visualization of interactions between all services
High-Cardinality Analytics
Analyze traces and calls from any perspective
CI/CD Release Monitoring
Out-of-the-box integration in Jenkins, Harness, Git Actions, and more
Continuous, Production Profiling
Deep code profiling, automatically applied to Java, Node.js, Go, and more
Full-Stack Context
Understand correlation of traces, calls, services, and applications with infrastructure, orchestration, logs, and much more...
Distributions
Rancher, OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, Anthos (coming soon), managed Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKS, etc.) and every other certified Kubernetes distribution
Ease of deployment
Complete monitoring with a single command for Helm, Kubernetes Operator, and more.
Drop-in Observability
Clusters, Deployments, Services, Daemonsets, Pods, and more
Full-Stack Context
Understand correlation of traces, calls, services, and applications with infrastructure, orchestration, logs, and much more...
Sessions
Every request traced and analyzed from browser to backend
Browsers
Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Edge & Internet Explorer, Opera, and more
Mobile
iOS, Android
Frameworks
Vanilla, React Native, and more
Custom Events
Automatically collected from W3C User Timing API, unlimited events included
Session & User Analytics
Analyze user requests and custom events from any perspective
Full-Stack Context
Understand correlation of traces, calls, services, and applications with infrastructure, orchestration, logs, and much more...
Platforms
AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and more
Drop-in Observability
No sample traces with zero code changes
No additional tracing costs
No reliance on X-Ray or other tracing services, don’t pay twice for traces
Analyzed Traces & Calls
Analyze traces and calls from any perspective
No Sampling
100% of function executions are traced, analyzed and stored
Full-Stack Context
Understand correlation of traces, calls, services, and applications with all the rest of your infrastructure on the cloud and on-premises
Platforms
Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, OpenShift, VMware/Pivotal, and more.
Databases
SQL, No-SQL, Graph, and more
Custom Metrics
Unlimited, custom metrics included
Full-Stack Context
Understand correlation of traces, calls, services, and applications with infrastructure, orchestration, logs, and much more...
Container Monitoring
Docker, Cri-o, Garden, containerD, LXC, and more.
Curated Knowledge Base
Ever-expanding, technology- specific, automatic issue detection
Machine Learning
Anomaly detection using baselines, forecasts, seasonality, and more
Root Cause Analysis
Context-enriched incident detection, one-click drill-down
Multi-Source Data Ingestion
Stream processing automatically analyzes traces, calls, logs, errors, metrics, process crashes, entity lifecycle, and more
Historical Data Analysis
Automatically generated seasonality profiles and metric trends
Data Access
All data in Instana is available via API
Logic
Intelligent alerts based on automatic or user-adjusted baselines
Event Correlation
All associated events are correlated to the root cause in a single alert
Integrations
Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, VictorOps, WebHooks, and more
Built-In, Curated Dashboards
Pre-configured dashboards based on best practice performance indicators
Custom Dashboards
Flexible, intuitive dashboard builder with TV Mode, shareable, and private views.
Business Insights
Analyze business and application performance relationships in a single view.
Grafana Plugin
Instana data source to access all Instana data from Grafana
Real-Time & Interactive
1 second granularity with one-click drill-down for immediate insights
Filter-Based Analysis
Slice & dice exceptions, error and warn logs, traces and calls, end-user monitoring beacons, profiles, infrastructure metrics, and more.
Filter-Based Analysis
Graph the data set resulting from filtered analysis
Open Source Tracing Analytics
Analyze individual or aggregate traces from OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin, and more.
Unlimited Metrics
Pull in metrics from any supported data source with no volume restrictions
Integrations
Prometheus, StatsD, DropWizard, Micrometer.io, Windows Performance Counters, and more
Log Messages
See every warning or above - log messages in context with the problematic requests
Integrations
Splunk, ELK, Humio, LogDNA, Coralogix, and more
Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic HTTP/API checks, Network connectivity checks (ICMP)
Integrations
Apica, Octoperf, HTTP header Integration
Role-Based Access Control
Restrict system access and visibility to authorized users
User Management
Integrations with LDAP, Single Sign On, and more
Privacy and Security
SOC 2 Compliant EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Certified
Audit Log
All configuration changes via the user interface and API are logged
Frequently Asked Questions
A host is considered to be any physical or virtual OS instance that you monitor with Instana.
No. At Instana, we believe that Infrastructure Monitoring, EUM, and Analytics are all core functions of a great APM tool. As such, everything is included in the APM licensing.
No, Instana does not believe in variable costs for our customers. All traces (unlimited), databases, users, and storage are included with the APM license.
Yes. Instana is a member of CNCF and welcomes the use of many open source technologies. Instana makes it very easy for our users to see their open source traces and metrics alongside, and correlated with, Instana’s natively collected metrics and traces.
At Instana, our commitment to privacy and security has led us to successfully complete our SOC 2 requirements and audit. With this certification you have peace of mind, knowing that there has been an independent & full review of Instana’s security that verified the appropriateness in the design of controls regarding availability, processing integrity, and confidentiality of the service.
Of course. You can try Instana for free for 14 days. Simply sign up for a free trial here.
