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We performed a comparison between Instana Dynamic APM and OmniPeek based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Instana Dynamic APM vs. OmniPeek Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"It is a stable solution.""The overall capabilities are the most valuable.""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.""Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful.""The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation.""Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users.""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.""With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."

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"The most valuable feature of OmniPeek was the ability it gave us to see the connection procedure.""The most valuable feature of OmniPeek is the ability to assign custom color codes to the different packets easily.""The most valuable feature is OmniPeek is user-friendly.""The most valuable features are the voice bot, which checks the quality of service for voice, and the expert view that gives me insight on what and where to troubleshoot.""I believe the most crucial feature of OmniPeek search is the ability to sniff packets based on channel switching.""It's a solid piece of software. It's stable."

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Cons
"Maybe log monitoring could be better.""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.""We'd always like to see additional functionalities.""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.""While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality""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.""They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."

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"I don't see a clear roadmap in the future for improving this software.""I would like to see the tool work in an open environment the same as how it does in a closed environment.""I would like to see the saving feature improved. We have had issues if you do not save your progress then you have to start from the beginning.""I am not using OmniPeek for automation, we only do manual testing. Automation testing is tedious to do. The automation should be more user-friendly. I have exposed some APIs but the usage is not user-friendly.""Making it more clear on how to configure the filters, or really automating them, would be an improvement.""The solution's automation has room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Pricing is quite competitive. Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic were all several times more expensive than Instana, both the on-prem and the SaaS versions. Price-wise they are a lot more competitive than anyone else out there."
  • "Its pricing isn't a big pain point. Its pricing seems to be better than some of the other competing products in the market, but they also have some of the features and functionalities that are better than Instana."
  • "The pricing is $1,200 per year which is a bit high compared to other vendors."
  • "The solution is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "It's reasonably priced and manageable, especially for individuals who grasp the significance of application monitoring."
  • "The solution's pricing is comparable to other products."
  • "Instana Dynamic APM is more affordable for small and medium-sized companies compared to other vendors."
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  • "The pricing for this solution could be improved, as it is a very expensive product."
  • "There are different types of licenses available."
  • "We have only purchased the add-on once and have not paid for any subsequent versions as it was too costly for us."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis.
    Top Answer:Instana Dynamic APM is more affordable for small and medium-sized companies compared to AppDynamics and Dynatrace.
    Top Answer:They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options. Additionally, the server and database monitoring needs enhancement compared to other vendors.
    Top Answer:It's a solid piece of software. It's stable.
    Top Answer:There's likely not a future for OmniPeek in LiveAction. LiveAction acquired OmniPeek. I don't see a clear roadmap in the future for improving this software. It's a bit expensive. The product has… more »
    Top Answer:Our company is an ODM manufacturer for wireless products like routers and WiFi access points. As an RD and QA department, we are sniffing the packet from the air to capture the raw WiFi traffic from… more »
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    Overview

    Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by Dev+Ops to optimize application performance, enable innovation, and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline. Learn more at https://instana.com.

    Omnipeek is a top-rated suite of network analytics software that offers full transparency and trusted forensics for immediate resolution of application and network performance anomalies and security issues. Omnipeek is part of the LiveAction family of quality trusted products. They specialize in packet intelligence with adaptable workflows and complete visibility throughout numerous network segments to facilitate a better understanding of network performance and dependability concerns in real time.

    Omnipeek combines intuitive geolocation, usability, security, and performance to deliver a robust user experience that facilitates immediate discovery and problem-solving of wireless and wired networks.

    Omnipeek is user friendly and offers many different intuitive dashboards, display options, graphs, peer maps, and packets. There are several different capture options, such as TCP dump, multiple adapters, local captures, and Capture Assistant. Omnipeek integrates well with Snort and Suricata intrusion and detection prevention solutions, allowing users to import events easily. The comprehensive analysis tools, such as Expert Flow Analysis, Web Traffic Analysis, Multi-Segment Analysis, and Local File Analysis combine to make Omnipeek a solid, complete solution.

    Omnipeek is effective for small offices to large enterprise data centers.

    Omnipeek Benefits

    • Omnipeek delivers unmatched transparency into applications, networks, and classification of layer 7 workflows.

    • Intuitive GUI presents a clear, intuitive view of packet-based analytics by conversation pairs.

    • Ability to capture and dissect 802.11n and 802.11ac wireless traffic from currently deployed points from third-party vendors such as Aruba, Cisco, and others.

    • Investigate traffic from all remote network segments, such as voice and video over IP, 802.11,1/10/40/100 Gigabit, Ethernet using the LiveCapture features and appliances.

    • Audit voice and video over IP traffic in real time using call back play, thorough signaling and media analyses, and high-level multi-media summary statistics.

    • Improve the average time to resolve failure with super fast intuition and interconnection with packet data, metadata, flows, and files.

    Omnipeek Features

    • WiFi monitoring: Using Omnipeek LiveCapture 1100, users are able to thoroughly monitor wired packet traffic and gather wireless traffic from WLAN controllers. Users can easily monitor, dissect, log, and diagnose multi-Gigabit speed 802.11ac traffic.

    • Improved LiveAction appliance support: LiveAction update appliances and software uses the innovative Del architectures and Intel capabilities to improve network packet capture-to-disk to 20Gbps in a 2RU system, with up to 128 TB of storage.

    • Improved VOIP processes: Now offering updates to performance and in synthesizing DTMF audio tones, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), and Asserted Identity (caller ID), makes Omnipeek a very robust, complete solution.

    • Improved financial transaction support: The solution provides updated support for ISO8583 protocol necessary for financial and banking organizations. Users have the ability to dissect critical data more thoroughly than with previous iterations.

    • Expert improvements: Users have access to several more Expert events, enhanced latency calculations, and many other improvements to the Expert views in Omnipeek.

    • 3rd party authentication improvements: Efficient workflow for 3rd party authentication results in enhanced performance for Access Control Lists (ACL).

    Sample Customers
    Daxko Lifts Fitness Studios Through COVID Regulations with Quick Engineering PivotsAltissia Meets SLAs to Support Student DeadlinesImmocloud Unlocks Observability to Modernize Real EstateEnento Group Boosts Service Reliability with Real-Time Visibility into Application Performance Instana’s Observability for Amazon EKS Helps Yara Deliver Digital Farming Solutions
    Apcon, Aruba Networks, Avaya Inc., Cisco Systems, Ekahau, Gigamon Systems, HP, IBM, IXIA, Meru Networks, Napatech, NextComputing, Procera Networks, Qualcomm Atheros, Ralink Technology Corporation, Telchemy
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Retailer11%
    Educational Organization8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise42%
    Large Enterprise33%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise52%
    Buyer's Guide
    Instana Dynamic APM vs. OmniPeek
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Instana Dynamic APM vs. OmniPeek and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while OmniPeek is ranked 29th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews. Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4, while OmniPeek is rated 7.8. 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 OmniPeek writes "Easy to identify packets, beneficial color assigning, and responsive support". Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, IBM Application Performance Management and Elastic Observability, whereas OmniPeek is most compared with LiveAction LiveNX, Colasoft Capsa, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE. See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. OmniPeek report.

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