IBM Instana vs. ManageEngine Applications Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Instana
Score 8.0 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)
ManageEngine Applications Manager
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
ManageEngine Applications Manager is an application performance management solution that also provides the ability to manage end user experience of enterprise Internet Services and hosted Web Services.
$395
per year per user
Pricing
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Editions & Modules
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)
Professional Edition
$395
per year per user
Enterprise Edition
$9,595
per year per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
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Features
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Instana
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Ratings
ManageEngine Applications Manager
9.2
Ratings
19% above category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
4.5
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM InstanaManageEngine Applications Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Managed Engine Applications Manager excels in monitoring virtual machine databases and general system health. However, it isn't designed for monitoring items like UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) systems. Its strengths lie in optimizing IT infrastructure, while UPS monitoring would be better suited to managed engine opsmanager.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Intuitive ease of the administration interface
  • Improvements and security fixes that are quickly integrated with frequent updates
  • Visibility into the status of our services and the end user experience (End to End)
  • Reports associated with attributes of services, applications or containers that help us detect certain flaws in our services.
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Cons
  • 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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  • Plugin Quirks where it times out
  • Navigation through some of the screen seems a bit confusing
  • Consistency such as where license info is location between op and app manager are in different places. Better if it were consistent
  • Maintenance schedules in different locations in both Op and App manger product, needs consistency. They are all Zoho products!!
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Likelihood to Renew
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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For the the trust, security and support that ManageEngine Application Manager has given us, for 12 years as clients, has made us very satisfied and grateful for the response times to resolve doubts or needs that we have had.
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Usability
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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The intuitive ease of the administration interface, the new features, improvements and security fixes that are quickly integrated with frequent updates. Tuning or more detailed reports associated with attributes of services, applications or containers that help us detect certain flaws in our services. The capacity for improvements that are implemented and the ease of integrating new monitors into the product, which we need, gives us the speed and ease of preventing interruptions or events that helps us avoid.
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Support Rating
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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The trust, security and support that ManageEngine Application Manager has given us, for 12 years as clients, has made us very satisfied and grateful for the response times to resolve doubts or needs that we have had.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Other solutions like Microsoft EM and SCCM can be interdependent and cause all sorts of issues and additional costs. I think software should be optionally integrated and work on its own as a standalone solution. I like that ManageEngine allows for specific use of its software and not forcing users into an unneeded license or contract.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • By providing valuable insights into application performance and resource utilization, it has contributed to better decision-making and resource allocation.
  • It has helped us identify and resolve performance issues more quickly, minimizing the impact on business operations.
  • ManageEngine Application Manager has improved our ability to monitor and manage critical applications, reducing downtime and improving overall productivity.
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