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IBM Instana Observability
Company blog · instana.com/blogsystemsprogramming
IBM Instana Observability is the company blog at instana.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2016, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Monitoring Microservice Applications with a Dynamic Graph”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Instana through job posts and product mentions. Comments describe it as an APM and observability product with automatic instrumentation. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
IBM Instana Observability provides real‑time application insight that traces requests, detects issues across the full application stack and speeds problem resolution.
Most-linked posts?
- Monitoring Microservice Applications with a Dynamic Graph3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-19
- There Is No Root Cause in Microservice Applications2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-02
- How Instana Safely Instruments Applications for Monitoring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-14
What Hacker News says?
Product Manager | Instana | Application Performance Management & Monitoring | US & EU| Full-time | Onsite or remote | instana.com/careers/ Instana is building application performance management for the microservice & cloud-native area. Founded by APM veterans, Instana provides automation and artificial intelligence to deliver the visibility needed to effectively manage the performance of today’s dynamic applications…
Comment linking /supported-technologies/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted Monitoring Microservice Applications with a Dynamic Graph as a story · 32 points
HN discussionInstana | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Senior Backend Developer | instana.com Instana is revolutionizing the application performance management space, where we compete with the likes of AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Financed by Merritech and Accel, we are growing very rapidly and need help! We have teams all over the world, but most of the engineering is in Germany and Serbia. Our stack is good'ol Java on Dropwizard with…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”Submitted There Is No Root Cause in Microservice Applications as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI agree that streaming and timeseries queries/scans are two different approaches which can solve the problem in the same way. With instant vectors of Prometheus queries you can operate very similar to windows and if you do the right queries and take care that it works in-memory you also should get similar performance and throughput. My point was more about the framework you get and how easy it is to apply analytics…
Comment linking /blog/how-instana-safely-instruments-applications-for-monitoring/
on “Ask HN: Best monitoring system?”Submitted Show HN: Application Performance Management 3.0 as a story · 12 points
HN discussionLet's first say that I am the co-founder an CEO of Instana, but I am trying to give a generic answer so that I don't "attack" competitors. Most of the mentioned tools in this thread, including Datadog, SignalFX etc are using a simple agent to collect data - see Datadog agent on GitHub: https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent or statsD ( https://github.com/etsy/statsd ) that is mostly recommended by SignalFX who have no…
Comment linking /blog/monitoring-microservice-applications-introducing-dynamic-graph/
on “Ask HN: Best monitoring system?”Submitted Monitoring Microservice Applications: Introducing the Dynamic Graph as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHi all, I'm surely biased as I work at Instana ( https://www.instana.com ), but here's my opinion about monitoring. Applications are dramatically and rapidly changing, with continuous delivery, microservice approach, containers and orchestration tools, things are all over and you might have a component spun up and down within few minutes. Humans cannot keep up with data and it doesn't make any sense to stare at a bi…
Comment linking /blog/no-root-cause-microservice-applications/
on “Ask HN: Best monitoring system?”Submitted Show HN: Introducing Instana Logical View as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere is magic, (caveat: I work here), but Instana ( https://instana.com ) will instrument most major languages and frameworks auto-magically. As in, I don't have to declare a dependency, change a configuration, or anything - our agent finds processes running on the system and bootstraps the libraries while running and monkey patches a huge number of standard libraries and frameworks with no restarts. (don't believe…
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on “The service mesh era: Using Istio and Stackdriver to build an SRE service”Submitted Automatic Incident recognition to rid the world of Alert Storms as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Commoditizes Tracing with the New AWS X-Ray as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring Elasticsearch at Scale as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Is No Root Cause in Microservice Applications as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: DC/OS and Instana – A Partnership for Modern Operations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SRE Guide to Hyperscale for Cloud-Native Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Go Benchmarks (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IBM Acquires Instana as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continous Profiling in Production as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instana announces continuous production profiler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instana Secures $30M Series C Investment Led by Meritech as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go Monitoring and Tracing with Instana as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Service Mapper: Our First Step Towards True Service Management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Quality of Service (Part I): Management, Service, Quality and Model as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing the Instana Trace SDK as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Instana Tracing: No Configuration. No Impact. No Sampling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Central Challenge in Monitoring Serverless Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Timeshift for Application Monitoring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring SLIs and SLOs with Instana – Instana as a story · 1 points
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