We’re thrilled to share that IBM Instana Observability has been won the leadership position in several G2 Fall 2025 award categories. You can find the full list of awards below. These awards are thanks to the appreciation, love and feedback of our users and customers!
IBM Instana named a Leader in the following categories:
- AIOPs Platform: Overall, Mid-market, Enterprise and Momentum
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Overall, Mid-market, Small Business and Momentum
- Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring: Overall, Mid-market, Small Business and Momentum
- Container Monitoring: Overall, Mid-market, Small Business and Momentum
- Database Monitoring: Overall and Mid-market
- DevOps: Overall, Mid-market and Small Business
- Digital Experience Monitoring: Overall, Mid-market, Small Business and Momentum
- Enterprise Monitoring: Mid-market
- Incident Response: Overall, Mid-market and Momentum
- IT Alerting: Overall, Mid-market and Momentum
- System Security: Overall
These award follow the Leadership positioning in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms and 2025 TopRated award by TrustRadius.
Coming back to G2, when IBM Instana users were asked "What do you like best about IBM Instana?" here's the response of some of our recent G2 reviewers:
"It's easy to use and implement on our Tomcat server, with a user-friendly UI and rich features that simplify daily monitoring. We use it frequently for real-time, AI-powered root cause analysis, helping us quickly identify issues in complex, distributed environments. Reliable customer support is readily available when needed." - Piyush T., AI Engineer
"The new feature that has been recently added like cost monitoring with Kubecost Integration. This is very handy to cut down the cost by efficiently utilizing resources." - Zafar Javed S., Network Operations Center Engineer
"Instana keeps getting better. I really like the new AI-powered incident investigation—it saves a lot of time by pinpointing issues fast. The real-time tracing and smart dashboards make monitoring feel effortless. Great tool for keeping complex cloud setups in check." - Ishan S., System Admin
Best in class observability
The IBM Instana is actively bringing new features and updates to the product. To learn more about IBM Instana, visit our web page. If you’re already a customer, leave us a review and receive a USD 25 gift card via email as a token of thanks from G2.
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