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Leading the pack: IBM Instana celebrates big wins in G2 Winter 2026 Awards

By Safal Jain posted Wed December 03, 2025 03:22 AM

  

We’re excited to announce that IBM Instana Observability has earned multiple G2 Winter 2026 awards across several categories. These wins are a testament to the trust, feedback, and support from our incredible users and customers.  

Check out the full list below, featuring categories where IBM Instana has been named a leader: 

  • AIOPs Platform: Overall, Mid-market and Momentum 

  • Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Overall, Mid-market, Small-Business, Enterprise and Momentum 

  • Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring: Overall, Mid-market, Small-Business and Momentum 

  • Container Monitoring: Overall, Mid-market, Small-Business, Enterprise and Momentum 

  • Database Monitoring: Overall, Mid-market and Momentum 

  • DevOps: Overall, Mid-market, Small-Business and Enterprise 

  • 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 

  • Website Monitoring: Overall, Mid-market and Momentum 

 
These awards follow the win in TrustRadius 2026 Buyer’s Choice Award and leadership position in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms.  
 
Coming back to G2, when IBM Instana users were asked "What problems is IBM Instana solving and how is that benefiting you?" here's the response of some of our recent G2 reviewers: 

"The [Instana] platform automates service discovery and root-cause analysis, allowing us to save a considerable amount of engineering time. By unifying logs, metrics, and traces, Instana has improved observability throughout our environment." - Dharmaraju G, DevOps Engineer

"Its [Instana’s] AI features are a big help, making daily work much easier, and the integration part is also very simple" - Jatin Dogra, Cybersecurity Analyst 

"I use IBM Instana for real-time visibility into applications, microservices, and APIs. It simplifies infra monitoring and offers efficient distributed tracing, making it easy to set up with minimal manual configuration.” - Alan Roy 

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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