Instana announced a new integration
with Splunk IT Service Intelligence
(ITSI), to solve challenges that can arise as organizations embrace
a Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) application delivery strategy.
The new Instana App delivers integrated access to Instana's full-stack
infrastructure and application monitoring information for Splunk users.
Connected directly to Splunk ITSI, the Instana App for Splunk delivers
Instana's performance and configuration data, as well as events and automatic
analysis of service issues.
"As organizations implement a CI/CD strategy,
the continuous change of code and infrastructure causes performance visibility
gaps in their dynamic microservice applications," said Pete Abrams, Instana
co-founder and COO. "Instana's integration with Splunk goes beyond performance
data to include application delivery events, service issues and problem
analysis - which all become part of the integrated analysis with Splunk."
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.
Available today on Splunkbase, the new Instana
integration provides Splunk users with the most complete data and analytics to
achieve observability of dynamic applications, allowing correlation of Instana's
data with other data in Splunk.
When service issues occur, automatic analysis
takes over, leveraging AI and machine learning to isolate any issues, identify
the probable cause of the problem and show users where to start their
investigation. Service incidents, correlated events and the probable triggering
event are all part of the information sent from Instana to Splunk ITSI.
"There are two related constants in today's IT
Operations environment - new technologies emerge and as they're adopted, application
complexity scales," said Nancy Gohring, senior analyst for application and
infrastructure performance at 451 Research. "The typical result is chaos for IT
Operations, especially in the area of performance management. However, new
tools and processes are available that maximize visibility while providing
immediate feedback to the whole application delivery organization. The outcome
is enabling teams to quickly identify and solve problems, even in these dynamic
and complex environments."
The Instana App provides unique value to Splunk
ITSI customers via out-of-the-box APM and End User monitoring KPIs that enable
faster MTTR, reduced downtime and increased productivity for DevOps teams.
Unique functionality includes:
- Application service metrics, including KPIs
- Performance Data for the full application stack,
including infrastructure
- Flexibility to funnel any Instana metric into Splunk,
including rich event data and problem resolution recommendations
With this broad set of combined performance
data, event data, incident information and recommendations of where to look and
how to resolve issues, AI Ops is becoming a reality.
The Instana App for Splunk is available today -
learn more at www.instana.com.