We performed a comparison between Instana Dynamic APM and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Instana Dynamic APM is notable for its ability to generate real-time data and its quick implementation process. VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is particularly praised for its easy deployment and seamless integration with other solutions. Instana offers comprehensive insights into application behavior and user experience, whereas VMware provides strong support for container platforms and offers valuable insights into application monitoring.
For example, Instana Dynamic APM could improve integration with additional plugins and an open API. It could also enhance synthetic monitoring and AI-based anomaly detection, API and end-user experience monitoring, and log monitoring. VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront requires enhancements in its billing model, customizable dashboards, cost predictability, documentation, and the initial setup process.
Service and Support: The customer service of Instana Dynamic APM varies, with some users being satisfied and others mentioning longer resolution times. Similarly, VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront has mixed feedback, with some users not needing support and others receiving prompt or satisfactory assistance.
Ease of Deployment: Instana Dynamic APM's initial setup is quick and straightforward, typically taking around 20 minutes. On the other hand, reviewers had mixed experiences with the VMware Tanzu setup process. Some found it to be fast and simple, while others found it to be more complicated and time-consuming, especially when dealing with cluster setups.
Pricing: Instana Dynamic APM offers a reasonably priced and competitive setup cost, although some users find the pricing slightly higher. In contrast, VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is considered expensive, with high licensing costs and the need to purchase additional licenses for integrations and add-ons.
ROI: Instana Dynamic APM has proven to be a profitable investment, whereas there is no available data regarding the return on investment for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront.
Comparison Results: Instana Dynamic APM outperforms VMware Tanzu according to user feedback. Users appreciate Instana's quick and simple setup, immediate data generation, intuitive interface, and extensive monitoring features. The pricing is also deemed reasonable.
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"The detailing of our application behavior and user experience is most valuable. In case there is an issue, we typically use Instana to figure it out. We can drill down to the application and figure out what's going on and where the issue is."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"No issues with stability."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
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Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 34th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Applications writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Elastic Observability and IBM Application Performance Management, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Dynatrace, Grafana, Zabbix, Datadog and AppDynamics. See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications report.
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