Instana, the first APM solution provider to monitor kubernetes at the
application layer, today announced further enhancements to the
company's automatic
application monitoring solution
for containerized applications. The new capabilities center around
Instana's Application Perspectives, a unique way to group and analyze
all performance metrics and traces from specific application components.
"While Kubernetes-based orchestration allows DevOps to keep
applications operating properly most of the time, it's quite challenging
to understand what is happening," said Pete Abrams, Instana co-founder
and COO. "To help developers quickly and easily understand how their
application code is behaving within a Kubernetes environment, Instana
has connected Kubernetes and Kubernetes Service monitoring directly to
application performance metrics and traces. This happens completely
automatically."
Instana continues to make headlines at KubeCon conferences. Last
December, in conjunction with KubeCon in Austin, Instana announced the
expansion of their automatic application monitoring solution to include
any applications running in Kubernetes or on Kubernetes services such as
Oracle OKE and Google GKE. In May, at KubeCon in Copenhagen, the
company announced the ability to correlate application performance
metrics and traces with Kubernetes system metrics - becoming the first
solution to monitoring Kubernetes, itself, from an application
perspective.
Instana's Application Perspectives changes the way in which IT
organizations, especially development teams, use APM solutions for
monitoring and troubleshooting their distributed microservice
applications. Using operational tags or allowing real-time ad hoc
definitions, Instana's Application Perspectives gather all the metrics
and traces that are related to specific applications, filtering out the
noise from other distributed systems.
"DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers are important, but they aren't
the only application performance stakeholders," Abrams continued.
"Developers are also involved in performance tuning and troubleshooting
containerized microservice applications. That's why Instana has created
an entire User Experience specifically for the developer community."
Instana's automatic APM solution for dynamic applications is unique
in its ability to automate every step of the application monitoring
lifecycle, from monitoring deployment to application discovery and
monitoring. The company continues to shake up the monitoring industry by
automatically consuming any source of performance and tracing
information, including popular open source solutions like Jaeger and
Zipkin. Like other Instana APM capabilities, the new Kubernetes monitoring occurs automatically, making it the quickest and easiest way to monitor Kubernetes applications and assure their performance.