Building on its leadership position in the Kubernetes
application management solution industry,
Instana today announced support for
managing CRI-O Kubernetes run-time containers and the applications that run on
that infrastructure.
"Instana is committed to providing the broadest and deepest application
performance management solution for Kubernetes-orchestrated applications.,"
said Chris Farrell, Instana Director of Technical Marketing. "The addition of
support for CRI-O as a Kubernetes run-time gives our customers maximum
flexibility to select their favorite orchestration engine and run-time
containers."
The first application performance management solution to natively monitor
container infrastructure and containerized applications, Instana expands its
technical leadership in the containerized application management industry with
today's announcement. Similarly to what it does with other technology
monitoring, Instana automatically discovers, deploys, monitoring and analyzes
data from CRI-O, correlating infrastructure and application information with
other monitoring information.
Instana was the first APM solution to monitor applications that ran in
containerized environments orchestrated with any Kubernetes distribution
including opensource K8s, Red Hat OpenShift, Tectonic, IBM Cloud Kubernetes
Service, Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Kubernetes Service, Google
Kubernetes Engine, Pivotal Kubernetes Service and Rancher Kubernetes.
Over the last two years, Instana has built on that technology, starting with
the unique ability to monitor the Kubernetes infrastructure, correlated with
the applications running in the environment. Last year, Instana further
expanded its Kubernetes monitoring footprint with instant access to Kubernetes
performance information and applications running in a K8S environment.
While today's announcement is not the first time additional container
technologies beyond Docker have been supported by Instana, it does represent
the first time that Instana is including CRI-O specific information in the
overall orchestration, container and application monitoring environments.
Unlike other APM solutions, Instana fully automates the entire lifecycle of
application monitoring including application discovery and mapping, monitoring
sensor and agent deployment, and application infrastructure health monitoring.
When any update occurs to dynamic applications, Instana recognizes that a
change has happened within the application, and then automatically makes the
appropriate adjustments to maps, monitoring thresholds and health dashboards.