# IBM Instana

IBM Instana is an observability platform that automatically discovers and maps services, infrastructure and their inter-dependencies, and traces distributed requests in real time. It is available as an IBM-managed SaaS service or as a self-hosted deployment behind the customer's firewall. It supports over 300 technologies and accepts OpenTelemetry metrics, traces and logs.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/ibm-instana · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Company type: Division of IBM
- Latest funding: Series C (led by Meritech Capital Partners)
- Deployment: IBM-managed SaaS available in North America, Europe, India, Singapore and Japan, or self-hosted behind the customer's firewall
- Best for: Larger organizations and regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare and government
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2

## Products

- IBM Instana Observability: Application performance monitoring with automatic discovery, real-time distributed tracing, CI/CD observability and built-in synthetic monitoring.
- IBM Instana GenAI Observability: Monitoring and management of AI workloads, generally available.
- Intelligent Incident Investigation: Agentic AI incident investigation, in preview.
- Probable Root Cause: Uses causal AI and differential observability to identify unhealthy entities, in public preview from release 277.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 15 of 45 | 3.7 | 8 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 7.2 | 14.8% |
| google_ai_mode | 2.0 | 7.4% |
| perplexity | 1.9 | 7.4% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

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