The year 2023 had a host of exciting updates, launches, and awards for Instana as the company focused on effortlessly meeting the needs of its customers and simplifying observability practices. In response to the market and user feedback, several significant product capabilities were unveiled, enhancing the ability of DevOps and SRE teams to observe, debug, remediate, and improve their software stacks.

Summary of Key Innovations:

Instana’s 2023 innovations encompass a wide range of product capabilities designed to integrate observability practices and telemetry data seamlessly into the software development lifecycle. These include Turbonomic integration, first-class OpenTelemetry support, synthetic monitoring, end user monitoring, SAP observability, intelligent actions, differentiated logging for cloud-native environments, business observability, product integrations, and Terraform integration.

Turbonomic Integration (Beta)

Instana launched a bi-directional integration with Turbonomic, empowering IT teams to transition from a reactive to proactive and preventative approach. The integration correlates Turbonomic recommendations to ongoing incidents in Instana, providing greater control over the stack.

First-class OpenTelemetry support

Instana deeply integrated OpenTelemetry with its core product, expanding coverage and support for metrics and traces, combined tracing, metric enhancements, and support for C++ tracing and metrics.

Synthetic monitoring

Instana extended its synthetic monitoring capabilities, offering notification alerts for API and transaction performance issues, as well as the ability to create synthetic browser tests.

End user monitoring

The end user monitoring support was extended to include crash analysis functionality and automatic website instrumentation.

SAP observability

Real-time monitoring for SAP BTP cloud-native applications was extended, along with support for SAP ABAP sensor and SolMan integration.

Intelligent actions

Instana introduced an action framework enabling users to create new actions, reuse existing automation, and leverage AI for action recommendations.

Differentiated logging for cloud-native environments

Instana extended its logging monitoring feature to support rich log analytics, Root Cause Analysis, and automatic log correlation without manual tagging or instrumentation.

Business observability

Instana added a new capability to provide business context for IT issues, automatically understanding and extracting critical business data from executing workflows in supported environments.

Product integrations (IBM MQ, DB Marlin)

Instana enhanced its product integration to provide extensive database performance monitoring and optimization, resulting from the partnership between DB Marlin and IBM Instana™.

Terraform integration

Instana now supports the Terraform provider, enabling comprehensive monitoring and insights into infrastructure managed through Terraform.

Awards Recognition

Instana was recognized as a top partner-friendly product that launched and enhanced significantly over the past year, emphasizing the company’s dedication to user experience for cloud-native workloads.

For detailed information on each innovation and to explore the latest updates, readers can refer to the awards and the latest update links.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How can I learn more about the Turbonomic Integration (Beta)?

You can join the webinar to explore more about the Turbonomic Integration (Beta).

Where can I watch the new release webinar to learn more about the updates on synthetic monitoring and end user monitoring?

You can watch the new release webinar here to learn more about the latest updates on synthetic monitoring and end user monitoring.

How do I sign up for a free trial of Instana’s observability innovations?

You can sign up for a free trial of Instana’s observability innovations here.

Where can I leave my ideas for new enhancements for Instana?

If you have any new enhancements you would like to see, you can leave your ideas on IBM Instana’s idea portal.