Alexander Pope, the great 18th Century English poet, wrote, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” and we’ve been quoting him ever since. Lately,it occurred to me as I watched a terrific new demo of the new IBM Acqusition, Instana.

As a Customer Support professional for many years, I know how many iterations it costs to get the complete picture (if at all). Often, the context is never captured fully, to develop a complete picture of the failure. Enter Instana, which captures 100% of everything, instead of small samplings, as done by few other products in the
Application Performance Management/Monitoring space. It no longer matters what your Platform is. What your infrastrucutre is. What your Application stack is. Instana provides immediate, exact understanding with zero effort, by doing the following:

1.   Automatic, continuous discovery of your full application stack through its sensors (Don’t break a sweat)
2.   Build a dependency map for realtime performance analysis
3.   Help gain an immediate and exact understanding of performance
4.   With CloudPak for WatsonAIOps, towards the path of remediation