IBM Instana Observability
#14 in Observability & Evalsibm · seit 2021-02-09 (GA von Instana Observability 1.0.x); GenAI/LLM-Observability-Erweiterung angekündigt Oktober 2025, Agentic A · 11× · zuletzt 30. Juni 2026
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IBM Instana Observability is an AI-powered, fully automated observability platform from IBM targeting DevOps and SRE teams. It automatically discovers and instruments applications and infrastructure, delivering real-time full-stack visibility with 1-second metric granularity. Instana supports over 300 technologies and platforms and is available as SaaS or self-hosted. Since IBM's acquisition of the originally Chicago-based company (founded 2015), it has been marketed as IBM Instana Observability (GA: 2021-02-09).
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Features
| Deployment (Self-Hosted/Cloud) | SaaS (Cloud) and Self-Hosted available, incl. AWS Marketplace Self-Hosted offering |
| Throughput/Latency | High-fidelity data with 1-second granularity, full traces of every request in real time |
| License | Commercial IBM product, licensed via Managed Virtual Server (MVS) units, min. 10 hosts |
| Platform | Supports 300+ technologies/platforms incl. Kubernetes, Cloud, Mainframe (z/OS), Mobile, Web |
| Price | Cloud Essentials from approx. $18-21.20/MVS/month; Standard approx. $75-79.50/MVS/month; Self-hosted approx. $120/MVS; Pay-per-use approx. $0.03/MVS-hour |
| Protocol Compatibility | OpenTelemetry (OTLP for Metrics, Traces, Logs) and OpenLLMetry for GenAI/LLM telemetry |
| Release Date | GA since February 9, 2021 (Instana Observability 1.0.x) |
| Supported Models/Providers | IBM watsonx.ai, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Grok, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, vLLM (via OpenLLMetry) |
