"I like the monitoring feature."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"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."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"It could be more stable."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"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."
Google Stackdriver is ranked 17th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 3 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 34th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 4 reviews. Google Stackdriver is rated 8.0, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 6.8. The top reviewer of Google Stackdriver writes "Provides visibility into the performance uptime and the overall health of our cloud applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "We can drill down and figure out what's going on with the application, but the API monitoring and user experience monitoring aspects could be better". Google Stackdriver is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Elastic Security and Amazon CloudWatch, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic Observability, New Relic APM and Datadog. See our Google Stackdriver vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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