🆚 Instana vs. Istio

Type

Application monitoring tool
Load balancer

About

Instana is a fully automated application performance management solution currently owned by IBM.

Istio is an open-source service mesh that secures, connects, and monitors services in Kubernetes, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments.

It can run with Envoy proxies injected into each service or in a proxy-free ambient mode, and provides canary releases, load balancing, circuit breakers, mutual TLS authentication, and observability through metrics, logs, and distributed traces for Prometheus and Grafana.

Headquarters

Armonk, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌
Observability Essentials (minimum order quantity: 10 hosts) $240+/host/year
Observability Standard (minimum order quantity: 10 hosts) $900+/host/year
Synthetic Browser Test $12/1K executions/month
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Application Monitoring › Rank #19
Application Monitoring › Rank #9
Load Balancers › Rank #11

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Istio load balancer is 6 times more popular than Instana.
Total websites

Market share

Application Monitoring

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Istio is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while Instana is more popular in France, Finland, and Slovakia.
United States
France
United Kingdom
Canada
Spain
Germany
Brazil
China
India
Korea

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Istio is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and travel, while Instana is more commonly used on dating and personals sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Travel
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Sports
Internet Services
Real Estate
Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2,417
#2,757
#3,027
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See also

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