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.
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"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."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"It is a stable solution."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"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."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"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."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"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."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."
"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."
More VMware Aria Operations for Applications Pricing and Cost Advice →
Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 32nd 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, IBM Application Performance Management and Elastic Observability, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, Zabbix and Prometheus. See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications report.
See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.
We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.