Instana’s Pricing is Simple and Transparent
All the Value. Half the Cost. No Surprises!
Deployment
Users
Supported Technologies
Open Standards
SaaS or Self-hosted (on-prem or cloud)
Unlimited
200+
Prometheus, StatsD, OpenTracing, OpenCensus, Jaeger, W3C Trace Context, DropWizard, and more
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.
| Instana Agent | Single Agent per Host |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Application Performance Monitoring (APM) | Included |
|---|---|
| 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... |
| Kubernetes Monitoring | Included |
|---|---|
| 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... |
| End-User Monitoring | Included |
|---|---|
| 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... |
| Serverless Monitoring | Included |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Cloud & Infrastructure Monitoring | Included |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| AIOps | Included |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Alerting | Included |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Dashboarding | Included |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Analytics | Included |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Custom Metrics | Included |
|---|---|
| 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 Monitoring Support | Included |
|---|---|
| Log Messages | See every warning or above - log messages in context with the problematic requests |
| Integrations | Splunk, ELK, Humio, LogDNA, Coralogix, and more |
| Synthetic Support | Included |
|---|---|
| Synthetic Monitoring | Synthetic HTTP/API checks, Network connectivity checks (ICMP) |
| Integrations | Apica, Octoperf, HTTP header Integration |
| Enterprise Security | Included |
|---|---|
| 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 |
