eG Enterprise vs. IBM Instana

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
eG Enterprise
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
eG Enterprise is a converged application and infrastructure monitoring solution that enables organizations to ensure peak performance of their business-critical applications and IT services. The vendor’s value proposition is that with eG Enterprise, users can monitor every layer and every tier of the IT infrastructure and connect performance insights across applications, user experience, business transactions, databases, servers, hypervisors, virtual desktops, storage and network devices, and…N/A
IBM Instana
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Instana, an IBM company since the December 2020 acquisition, provides APM services for SOA, microservices, containerized applications and Kubernetes, and cloud native applications, as well as discovery and monitoring for IT assets.
$18
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Pricing
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Essentials
$18
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Standard
$75
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Self-Hosted
$93.80
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPlease contact info@eginnovations.com to learn more about pricing.
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Community Pulse
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Features
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
eG Enterprise
8.8
Ratings
14% above category average
IBM Instana
-
Ratings
Application monitoring9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
eG EnterpriseIBM Instana
Likelihood to Recommend
eG Enterprise has brimming monitoring potentiality; it monitors servers, applications, networks, and basically the entire infrastructure. It is a comprehensive and flexible monitoring tool with deep app diagnostic capabilities. It reports slowing down of apps and isolates the cause of the down trending. The tool is expensive but provides good value for money.
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With enterprise IT assets in a multitude of ecosystems, cloud infrastructures and sometimes still left stuck in a legacy on prem architecture, IBM Instana makes it easy to get the right data to drive development and / or DevSecOps processes with tangible input from the target environment itself.
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Pros
  • Provides extensive visibility beyond the performance of apps and the entire infrastructure.
  • The excellent diagnostic capacities allow us to drill down issues and find their root cause.
  • Good APM capabilities.
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  • Collecting Kubernetes and Infra level logs and presenting in easy to understand visuals.
  • Tracing the end-to-end journey of an event and also categorizing by technology and Endpoints
  • Built-in and custom alerts help to monitor almost all of scenarios without much additional configuration.
  • Ability to create Applications to logical group important flows
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Cons
  • eG Enterprise supports only traditional Deployment Architecture on Desktop, Windows server and Linux server
  • Could be Improve in Integration like accepting data from different monitoring tools and perform the data analytics like deduplication correlation etc…
  • I am sure the product is excellent for Technologies monitoring like Citrix, SAP, VMware, Oracle, Nutanix and 0365, Competitive licensing can defiantly give edge
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  • I believe that the "live" option in monitoring does not truly update the status in real-time, thus I must manually update to feel comfortable.
  • The call analysis tool might be improved, third-party resources are restricted, and the pricing is slightly more than competitors in comparable categories.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Instana has been able to fulfill our all requirement and provide out of box solution for multiple component like AWS RDS Monitoring and real time alerting setup on basis of that. it is also easy to integrate with other open-source alerting and monitoring tools which makes it easier to incorporate into our solutions
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Usability
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IBM Instana totally alters our monitoring approach since it increases the stability of the system and simplifies the process of problem solving. And since it helps to lower the degree of alert exhaustion that we experience, it is a total game changer for us.
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Support Rating
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IBM instana support team is good but when we ask them for support, they keep asking same thing again and again and mostly there is no solution
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Alternatives Considered
Its Lacking Synthetic monitoring of VDI user
transactions and also doesn’t comprehensively monitor the technologies like SharePoint, SAP, Exchange etc...
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As a DevOps engineer, I've explored various Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, including New Relic for real-time insights, AppDynamics for code-level visibility, Dynatrace for AI-driven monitoring, Datadog for comprehensive observability, Splunk for log management, Stackify Retrace for error tracking, and Raygun for crash reporting. Each tool offers distinct features, and the choice depends on specific use cases, technology stacks, and organizational needs. Thorough evaluations, considering factors like ease of use, integration capabilities, and scalability, help in selecting the most suitable APM solution for effective application monitoring in a DevOps environment.
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Return on Investment
  • Deep dive monitoring of VDI environment has defiantly helped to maintain the reliable VDI service for Citrix and VMware Horizon and avoid lot of tickets in my ITSM
  • Product is really good however I believe its bit expensive, eG should rethink on the license cost
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  • Let's me monitor and pinpoint issues across multiple critical systems and applications that work in tandem, reducing drastically, the time in identifying root cause and solving the issues.
  • Let's me deep dive into issues found with a lot of detailed information about particular requests , and find proper solutions by my own research or even with Gen AI assistant using Watson.x or you could prompt your AI solution of choice as well.
  • All systems fail at some point, so IBM Instana gives stakeholders ease that large complex and critical systems that affect the very livelihood of people is being observed with pinpoint precision and that issues are addressed promptly and with compass pointing north towards the problem's root cause and solutions.
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ScreenShots

eG Enterprise Screenshots

Screenshot of Real User Monitoring DashboardScreenshot of Transaction Flow Map - Business Transaction TracingScreenshot of Built-in Application Monitoring Dashboards with Code-Level VisibilityScreenshot of Automated Infrastructure Dependency Mapping and Root Cause DiagnosisScreenshot of Self-Learning Automatic Baseline ThresholdsScreenshot of Out-of-the-Box Reports for Historical Performance Analysis, Capacity Forecasting and Right-Sizing