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  • Instana Releases First .Net Core Performance Management Solution that Includes Automatic Tracing of all Requests

    Instana was First to Announce .Net Core Instrumentation at 2018 Microsoft Ignite Conference

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – September 19, 2019 – Instana, the leading provider of automated APM solutions for cloud-based microservice applications, announced the release of automatic code-level monitoring and tracing for .Net Core. That brings the total number of programming languages automatically instrumented and traced by Instana to twelve including Java, C#/.Net, Ruby, Node, Go, and many more. Instana was the first APM solution to release a .Net Core agent in 2018, with this latest release completing the process of automatic instrumentation for code level visibility.

    “Microservice architectures continue to evolve, creating interesting combinations of programming and infrastructure technologies,” said Chris Farrell, Director of Marketing at Instana. “It’s critical for any management tool to provide complete code-level visibility and tracing of all user requests across all possible programming languages, including .Net Core.”

    The latest release brings Instana’s automatic tracing to a dozen different programming languages – all without any human configuration or engineering effort. Coupled with the one hundred and fifty microservice platform and infrastructure sensors, Instana has the ability to track user requests across the full stack and all services of dynamic microservice applications.

    “Instana’s ability to automatically map and monitor our applications across every part of our applications stack helps our Development and DevOps teams get immediate feedback to any application changes,” said Don Bauer, DevOps Manager at Citizens Bank. “We’re always pushing the technology envelope, and it’s great that Instana can keep up with those changes with new programming language sensors like this one for .Net Core.”

    Instana automates the discovery of services, automatically understands their quality and immediately presents information on quality and performance to DevOps. Unlike conventional monitoring solutions, Instana’s automated APM solution operates without requiring ongoing engineering effort, human configuration, or even application restarts. Developers are able to determine build quality with one click. Likewise, traditional Ops personnel can quickly understand the root cause of production performance issues.

    The latest sensors, including .Net Core tracing, are available in the product today, which new users can try for free. You can learn more about the company at https://instana.com.

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  • Instana Adds APM and Microservices Industry Veteran As Chief Marketing Officer

    Former Dynatrace and Docker, Inc. Executive to Lead Company’s Marketing Efforts

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – September 5, 2019 – Instana, the leading provider of automatic Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for microservice applications, announced today that APM and Microservices industry veteran Laurent Séraphin has joined its executive leadership team as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

    Séraphin has over a decade of experience between the APM, Containers and Microservices industries. In his new role at Instana, he will leverage his expertise in both areas to lead all corporate, product solutions and revenue growth marketing as the company accelerates down the path of delivering a modern, automatic APM solution for microservices.

    “Instana is delighted to welcome Laurent to our leadership team as Chief Marketing Officer,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “We’ve seen consistent growth in demand for the APM solution we deliver, and Laurent is well equipped to help us drive this momentum with his prior experience and invaluable marketing expertise, as he’s spent years in the APM space, as well as for Docker, Inc., one of the companies at the forefront of enterprise containers and modern microsevices technologies.”

    Prior to joining Instana, Séraphin was with Docker, Inc. where he was in charge of Growth Marketing. Previous to this, he was Senior Director EMEA Marketing at MuleSoft. Before that, Séraphin worked at Dynatrace for over six years as their Vice President of Marketing.

    “With the exponential increase to IT complexity and rate of change, Instana continues to step into the management gap and provide leadership for delivering and operating Cloud-Native and microservice-based services,” said Laurent Séraphin, Instana CMO. “I’m excited for the opportunity to continue to add to Instana’s growth, building on the tremendous technical and business differentiation in the company’s solutions.”

    Instana’s automatic application monitoring solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack, traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

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  • Instana Pipeline Feedback™ Integrates Automated APM with CI/CD Application Releases

    DevOps and Developers Get Immediate Feedback on New Release Performance

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – August 15, 2019 – Instana, the leading provider of automated Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for dynamic microservice applications, announced application release tracking and feedback capabilities that make it the first APM solution to include automatic release tracking.

    The new capabilities are part of Instana Pipeline Feedback™, an application delivery pipeline performance tracking and analytics solution, directly integrated with Instana’s automated APM solution. In addition to the new Pipeline Feedback system, today’s announcement covers specific new functionality:

    • Automatic tracking and performance feedback of Application Releases
    • Integration with Jenkins for automatic identification of new releases

    “As application teams strive for higher velocity in their deployment processes, they require immediate feedback whenever changes occur,” said Pete Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “Instana Pipeline Feedback tracks and isolates application release performance, notifying developers and DevOps of issues within seconds.”

    Pipeline Feedback is included with Instana’s automated APM solution that maps, visualizes and manages microservice applications, delivering the actionable data that application teams need to provide high quality applications. The new CI/CD process management capabilities are included at no additional cost.

    Instana’s automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution discovers application service components and application infrastructure, including Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Docker. The tool automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application technology stack and traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

    For deployment teams, the full system is a powerful tool to understand the quality of new software deployments. Whenever an official release is deployed, Jenkins notifies Instana Pipeline Feedback, which will isolate each new service or piece of code, provide Instana performance reports, and deliver a comparison of service and application performance and health, compared to the previous release.

    Like other Instana capabilities, Pipeline Feedback is automatic and provides actionable data in seconds – providing DevOps and Developers the immediate feedback they need to know that new releases are performing as expected. The new functionality is being showcased at the JenkinsWorld / DevOps World Conference. Learn more at instana.com.

    ABOUT INSTANA

    As the leading provider of Automatic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions for microservices, Instana has developed the automatic monitoring and AI-based analysis DevOps needs to manage the performance of modern applications. Instana is the only APM solution that automatically discovers, maps and visualizes microservice applications without continuous additional engineering. Customers using Instana achieve operational excellence and deliver better software faster. Visit https://instana.com to learn more.

     

  • Instana is First Automatic Performance Monitoring Solution to Provide Jenkins Monitoring for Builds and the Jenkins Stack

    Automatic APM Solution Provider Adds CI/CD Management Capabilities

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – August 8th, 2019 – Instana continues to change the way organizations think about delivering and monitoring business applications with the addition of Jenkins monitoring to the company’s automatic Application Performance Management (APM) solution. The leader in providing automated Application Monitoring solutions, Instana has started adding performance management for systems in other steps of the application delivery process.

    “A common theme amongst Instana customers is the need to deliver and deploy quality applications faster, and Jenkins is a critical component of that delivery process,” said Peter Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “The latest monitoring addition to Instana’s automated APM solution for dynamic microservice applications moves up the deployment process to tackle application builds and deployment.”

    Instana’s automatic Jenkins monitoring capabilities include providing performance visibility of individual builds and deployments, as well as health monitoring of the Jenkins tool stack itself – including the hosts and JVMs running Jenkins. This gives Agile Development and DevOps teams the data they need to understand exactly where they can optimize their application delivery process.

    Instana’s automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution discovers application service components and application infrastructure, including Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Docker. The tool automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application technology stack and traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

    Instana will be showcasing their new Jenkins infrastructure and build monitoring capabilities at the DevOps World / JenkinsWorld conference on August 12th in San Francisco. Learn more by stopping by the Instana’s Booth (Booth Number 1002) or visiting https://instana.com.

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    About Instana

    As the leading provider of Automatic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions for microservices, Instana has developed the automatic monitoring and AI-based analysis DevOps needs to manage the performance of modern applications. Instana is the only APM solution that automatically discovers, maps and visualizes microservice applications without continuous additional engineering. Customers using Instana achieve operational excellence and deliver better software faster. Visit https://instana.com to learn more.

     

  • Instana Releases Automatic Application Monitoring Agent Operator for Red Hat OpenShift

    New Operator Provides Deployment Flexibility for Instana’s Full-Stack Kubernetes Application Performance Monitoring Solution

    Boston at the Red Hat Summit – May 8, 2019 – Instana, the leader in Automatic Application Monitoring solutions for containerized applications, is making it easier for DevOps teams to manage orchestrated applications with its first release of agent technology as an Instana Agent Operator and has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification. This new deployment option offers deployment flexibility to users, who can also run the agent as its own container, host process or microservice.

    “The Instana Operator makes it easier and more efficient for companies to deploy and operate their microservice applications,” said Pete Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “Instana’s ability to deploy monitoring agents as Operators on Red Hat OpenShift allows DevOps teams to leverage Instana’s ability to automate monitoring configuration and application root cause analysis on top of OpenShift, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform.”

    Instana’s Automatic APM solution for microservices is the only automated application monitoring solution that provides full-stack visibility automatically and collects end-to-end traces of every user request. The solution not only recognizes the presence of containers and orchestration, it has automatically deployed monitoring sensors for those infrastructure components.

    Unlike conventional monitoring solutions, Instana’s automatic APM solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack and traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

    “Kubernetes Operators are appealing because they help encode the human operational logic normally required to manage services running on a Kubernetes-native application and aim to make day-to-day operations easier,” said Julio Tapia, director, Cloud Platforms Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat. “We are thrilled that the Instana Agent Operator is Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certified. By providing Operators on Red Hat OpenShift users can begin experiencing the next level of benefits from a Kubernetes-native infrastructure, with services designed to ‘just work’ across any cloud where Kubernetes runs.”

    Instana’s microservice monitoring capabilities include deep visibility into almost a dozen different languages and over 100 different microservice application infrastructure technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, NGINX, AWS and many more. Monitoring for each technology component includes correlated application level visibility, as well as information tied to each individual request in traces.

    The correlated monitoring of applications and infrastructure extends to the OpenShift Kubernetes distribution, providing automated visibility into mission critical applications, their dependencies and their performance.

    Instana will be demonstrating its APM solution for OpenShift Applications at Red Hat Summit in Boston (Booth 310) – as the second stop on Instana’s annual Kubernetes Roadshow. Learn more about the company’s automatic APM and Application Infrastructure monitoring solution by visiting www.instana.com.

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    ABOUT INSTANA

    As the leading provider of Automatic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions for microservices, Instana has developed the automatic monitoring and AI-based analysis DevOps needs to manage the performance of modern applications. Instana is the only APM solution that automatically discovers, maps and visualizes microservice applications without continuous additional engineering. Customers using Instana achieve operational excellence and deliver better software faster. Visit https://instana.com to learn more.

  • Instana Automatic APM Now Available in Amazon AWS Marketplace

    AWS Users Can Seamlessly Install and Purchase Automatic Application Monitoring and Tracing

    SAN FRANCISCO AND SOLINGEN, GERMANY  – APRIL 19, 2019

    Instana, the leading provider of Automatic Application Monitoring (APM) solutions for cloud-native applications, today announced that its automatic APM solution is available for purchase in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. AWS subscribers can now acquire Instana to manage their AWS applications and infrastructure seamlessly through their AWS account.

    “No matter how big or small an IT organization is, cloud-based infrastructure and applications have become a critical part of the deployment strategy,” said Pete Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “Allowing these organizations to research, purchase and deploy a performance monitoring solution for their cloud systems makes their monitoring startup processes more efficient.”

    With just a few clicks, AWS users can access Instana’s automatic APM and application infrastructure monitoring solution, add the licenses to their AWS account and start monitoring performance.

    Unlike conventional monitoring solutions, Instana’s automatic APM solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack and traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

    The new Instana AWS marketplace entry includes an option to try the fully-featured product for free, giving users the opportunity to see how all their AWS applications and infrastructure are performing. Instana’s automatic deployment, discovery and monitoring configuration capabilities deliver visualizations of application dependency maps and service level monitoring in minutes.

    Instana’s automatic APM includes monitoring and tracing for over 100 different languages, microservices and popular Amazon platforms including EC2, DynamoDB and AWS RDS databases, AWS SQS Messaging, ELB Load Balancing, and AWS Kinesis streaming. Learn more by visiting http://www.instana.com.

  • Instana Releases Performance Monitoring and Tracing Support for NGINX and Envoy

    Instana Is First APM Solution to Automatically Tie Traces of Every Application Request at the Proxy Layer to End-to-End Tracing

     

    March 21, 2019 – San Francisco, CA and Solingen Germany – Instana, the leading provider of Automatic APM solutions for container-native applications, today announced the availability of monitoring and tracing support for NGINX and Envoy Application Proxies. With the current release of Instana’s APM service, Developers and DevOps get performance visibility and individual traces for every transaction from the browser through every service and down to the proxy layer. All this new data is captured automatically and integrated with the rest of Instana’s sensor and tracing technologies.

     

    “While Application Proxies are an important part of creating on-demand scalability for microservice applications, they create a performance visibility gap since they operate as black boxes,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “Instana’s ability to trace application requests through these foundation systems will improve overall application quality and provide the most comprehensive application performance visibility in the business.”

    Instana’s NGINX and Envoy monitoring and tracing capabilities include the ability to tie performance metrics and tracing through proxy servers to the end-to-end application traces captured by Instana’s AutoTrace technology. By tracing across the proxies, the front end user traces are followed through to the back end microservice requests without having to add any custom tracing code. Instana becomes the only APM solution available that can do this automatically.

    “As the technology and architectures underpinning applications continue to evolve, monitoring solutions must keep up with those changes,” said Peter Abrams, Co-founder and COO. “Instana’s ability to monitor performance and trace requests through NGINX and Envoy is indicative of the company’s commitment to provide complete coverage of microservice applications.”

     

    Instana’s automatic application monitoring solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack, traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to performance in seconds.

    Instana will be showcasing its new proxy and service mesh monitoring at several technology conferences around the world, including Cloud Expo Europe, Google Cloud Next, Red Hat Summit and DockerCon. Learn more by visiting www.instana.com

    ABOUT INSTANA

    As the leading provider of Automatic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions for microservices, Instana leverages automation and AI to deliver immediate actionable information that DevOps and Developers need to manage cloud-native applications. Instana is the only APM solution that automatically discovers, maps and visualizes microservice applications without continuous additional engineering. Customers using Instana achieve operational excellence and deliver better software faster. Visit https://instana.com to learn more.

  • Instana Releases First EUM Solution To Provide Unbounded Analytics™ Of Browser Response Time Automatically Correlated To Microservice Performance

    First APM Solution to Include Free EUM Empowers Developers to Precisely Determine Response Time Contributions and Immediately Optimize End-User Experience

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – January 16, 2019 – APM provider Instana has removed the boundaries of performance analytics to provide an infinitely flexible way to analyze and understand end user experience. Instana’s Unbounded Analytics is now available in the company’s latest release of End User Monitoring (Insana EUM), included with the Instana APM service. The latest Instana EUM release captures 100% of all user requests, provides easy filtering to find all page loads from specific user IDs, and enables detailed performance analysis of every request from the browser frontend through the server-side backend.

    “With today’s applications growing in complexity, the ability to analyze every request, with no limits on how to slice and dice the data set, from the browser through all the microservices is critical for DevOps and CI/CD,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “In fact, since end user monitoring is a critical part of overall performance management, Instana is providing this functionality in our APM solution for free! The new Instana EUM is included with our APM offering.”

    Instana’s Unbounded Analytics allows users to apply filters to the Trace data set, in effectively unlimited combinations, enabling developers to find the exact Request or Trace needing attention. Since all Traces, which now include the web performance data, are available automatically, finding challenging performance issues is easier for the whole DevOps organization.

    Instana EUM includes a multitude of browser-side data such as page loads, resources, HTTP requests, and JavaScript errors, allowing Site Reliability Engineers and Developers to identify and analyze a variety of situations including:

    • Identify browser-side performance regressions for specific types and versions of web browsers
    • Analyze every request from a specific user session to understand the exact conditions that resulted in errors or performance issues
    • Immediately understand if a problem is in the browser or server-side and identify the root cause of any poor performing user request

    “With the new EUM analytics capability, combined with the amazing fact that Instana captures every single end-user request, our devops team is able to understand exactly how our customers are experiencing the Edmunds.com service,” said Stephanie Byrd, Cloud Services Technical Lead at Edmunds.com. “For example, we can analyze the performance experienced from Seattle in the last two hours and correlate that to our microservices performance, helping us isolate issues and optimize our customer experience and retention. It is quite powerful to have every request in the Instana data set at our fingertips.”

    For frontend developers, Instana EUM collects the same data available on the network tab of browser-side Developer Tools, but records this information historically for every user request. With Instana, developers will never need to struggle with re-creating problems by guessing how users were making web requests. Instead they will have the actual diagnostic data readily available in the Instana UI to quickly understand the root cause of any slow or erroneous user request.

    Instana’s automatic application monitoring solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack, traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to users in seconds.

    The new Instana EUM capabilities are included for free with the company’s APM solution. Learn more at https:instana.com/eum.

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  • Instana Releases First Eum Solution To Provide Unbounded Analytics™ Of Browser Response Time Automatically Correlated To Microservice Performance

    First APM Solution to Include Free EUM Empowers Developers to Precisely Determine Response Time Contributions and Immediately Optimize End-User Experience

    Solingen, Germany and San Mateo, CA – January 16, 2019 – APM provider Instana has removed the boundaries of performance analytics to provide an infinitely flexible way to analyze and understand end user experience. Instana’s Unbounded Analytics is now available in the company’s latest release of End User Monitoring (Insana EUM), included with the Instana APM service. The latest Instana EUM release captures 100% of all user requests, provides easy filtering to find all page loads from specific user IDs, and enables detailed performance analysis of every request from the browser frontend through the server-side backend.

    “With today’s applications growing in complexity, the ability to analyze every request, with no limits on how to slice and dice the data set, from the browser through all the microservices is critical for DevOps and CI/CD,” said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO. “In fact, since end user monitoring is a critical part of overall performance management, Instana is providing this functionality in our APM solution for free! The new Instana EUM is included with our APM offering.”

    Instana’s Unbounded Analytics allows users to apply filters to the Trace data set, in effectively unlimited combinations, enabling developers to find the exact Request or Trace needing attention. Since all Traces, which now include the web performance data, are available automatically, finding challenging performance issues is easier for the whole DevOps organization.

    Instana EUM includes a multitude of browser-side data such as page loads, resources, HTTP requests, and JavaScript errors, allowing Site Reliability Engineers and Developers to identify and analyze a variety of situations including:

    • Identify browser-side performance regressions for specific types and versions of web browsers
    • Analyze every request from a specific user session to understand the exact conditions that resulted in errors or performance issues
    • Immediately understand if a problem is in the browser or server-side and identify the root cause of any poor performing user request

    “With the new EUM analytics capability, combined with the amazing fact that Instana captures every single end-user request, our devops team is able to understand exactly how our customers are experiencing the Edmunds.com service,” said Stephanie Byrd, Cloud Services Technical Lead at Edmunds.com. “For example, we can analyze the performance experienced from Seattle in the last two hours and correlate that to our microservices performance, helping us isolate issues and optimize our customer experience and retention. It is quite powerful to have every request in the Instana data set at our fingertips.”

    For frontend developers, Instana EUM collects the same data available on the network tab of browser-side Developer Tools, but records this information historically for every user request.  With Instana, developers will never need to struggle with re-creating problems by guessing how users were making web requests. Instead they will have the actual diagnostic data readily available in the Instana UI to quickly understand the root cause of any slow or erroneous user request.

    Instana’s automatic application monitoring solution discovers application infrastructure and service components, deploys monitoring sensors for the application’s technology stack, traces all application requests – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects changes in the application environment in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and impacts to users in seconds.

    The new Instana EUM capabilities are included for free with the company’s APM solution. Learn more at https:instana.com/eum.

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    About Instana

    As the leading provider of Automatic Application Monitoring solutions for microservices, Instana leverages automation and artificial intelligence to deliver the visibility and actionable information DevOps teams need to manage dynamic applications. Instana enables application delivery teams to accelerate their CI/CD cycle and deliver high performance business services with confidence. Visit us at https://instana.com to learn more.

     

  • Instana Extends Leading Kubernetes Monitoring Solution to Better Serve Developer Community

    Company’s Latest Release Provides Quickest and Easiest Developer Visibility of Kubernetes Application and System Performance

    Seattle at KubeCon – December 11, 2018 – Instana, the first APM solution provider to monitor kubernetes at the application layer, today announced further enhancements to the company’s automatic application monitoring solution for containerized applications. The new capabilities center around Instana’s Application Perspectives, a unique way to group and analyze all performance metrics and traces from specific application components.

    “While Kubernetes-based orchestration allows DevOps to keep applications operating properly most of the time, it’s quite challenging to understand what is happening,” said Pete Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “To help developers quickly and easily understand how their application code is behaving within a Kubernetes environment, Instana has connected Kubernetes and Kubernetes Service monitoring directly to application performance metrics and traces. This happens completely automatically.”

    Instana continues to make headlines at KubeCon conferences. Last December, in conjunction with KubeCon in Austin, Instana announced the expansion of their automatic application monitoring solution to include any applications running in Kubernetes or on Kubernetes services such as Oracle OKE and Google GKE. In May, at KubeCon in Copenhagen, the company announced the ability to correlate application performance metrics and traces with Kubernetes system metrics – becoming the first solution to monitoring Kubernetes, itself, from an application perspective.

    Instana’s Application Perspectives changes the way in which IT organizations, especially development teams, use APM solutions for monitoring and troubleshooting their distributed microservice applications. Using operational tags or allowing real-time ad hoc definitions, Instana’s Application Perspectives gather all the metrics and traces that are related to specific applications, filtering out the noise from other distributed systems.

    “DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers are important, but they aren’t the only application performance stakeholders,” Abrams continued. “Developers are also involved in performance tuning and troubleshooting containerized microservice applications. That’s why Instana has created an entire User Experience specifically for the developer community.”

    Instana’s automatic APM solution for dynamic applications is unique in its ability to automate every step of the application monitoring lifecycle, from monitoring deployment to application discovery and monitoring. The company continues to shake up the monitoring industry by automatically consuming any source of performance and tracing information, including popular open source solutions like Jaeger and Zipkin. Like other Instana APM capabilities, the new Kubernetes monitoring occurs automatically, making it the quickest and easiest way to monitor Kubernetes applications and assure their performance.