Instana, the leading provider of automatic Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for
microservice applications, today became the first APM solution provider to
announce support for the On-Prem version of Google's Kubernetes Engine
(GKE), a part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
"Application teams need flexibility in their platform choices,
especially as they implement and roll out orchestrated microservice
applications," said Mirko Novakovic, Instana co-founder and CEO.
"Instana will continue to expand our Kubernetes distribution support so
that no matter what platform a DevOps team chooses, they can also have a world
class APM solution."
Instana's support for Google's On-Prem GKE version is the latest
announcement about container and orchestration performance management
enhancements since the last KubeCon US conference. At that event, Instana
announced that their automatic APM solution was tightening the integration of
Kubernetes platform monitoring with the existing infrastructure monitoring, APM
and tracing capabilities of the product - making it easier to provide access to
Kubernetes performance information for all stakeholders including developers.
Since then, Instana has announced new monitoring for Envoy Application
proxies and containerd, enhanced deployment options for monitoring applications
running on Red Hat OpenShift, and a collaborative effort with GiantSwarm to
deliver the first integration of a Managed Kubernetes Service with a Kubernetes
APM solution.
Instana's automatic application monitoring solution discovers application
infrastructure and service components, including Kubernetes Pods and Nodes. The
tool automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application
technology stack and 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 performance in seconds.
Instana's Kubernetes APM solution runs on many
popular K8S distributions include open-source Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure AKS,
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift, Google (GKE) cloud and on-prem
versions, and Amazon's EKS.