Use cases for IBM Observability with Instana

Use cases for IBM Observability with Instana—Sander JoostenTechnical Sales [email protected]

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Instana Use Cases

Pick your case!

How can Instana help you span Ops and Dev for true DevOps and more?

SRE

Using Instana for Site Reliability Engineering purposes

Mainframe

Connecting Instana to your Mainframe

Cost & Efficiency Management

How can Turbonomic help you to improve efficiency?


IBM Observability with Instana: pick your case!

CLOUD PROVIDERS MACHINES

MainframeMobile Apps

Websites

CLOUD & VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORMSDIGITAL

Hybrid Multi-Cloud Platform Observability

MAINFRAME

250+ Observed Technologies

RUNTIMES OSS COLLECTORS MESSAGING WEB PROXIES DATASTORES

Comprehensive Capabilities

VERTICAL & HORIZONTALCONTEXT

APPLICATIONPERSPECTIVES

ROOT CAUSEANALYSIS

AUTO-DISCOVERY& INSTRUMENTATION

PIPELINEFEEDBACK

UNBOUNDEDANALYTICS

DevOpsBizOps ITOpsSecOpsSupporting Multiple Domains

SRE


Resources:Bloghttps://www.ibm.com/cloud/smartpapers/sre-journey-to-aiops/

CSMO educationhttps://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/content/course/explore-csmo/

Webinar Videoshttp://ibm.biz/bnl-instana2021-ddr

https://www.instana.com/webinars

https://www.instana.com/webinars/how-observability-tools-help/


Use case: SREUsing Instana for Site Reliability Engineering purposes

Resources:Blog by Nicole Nemechttps://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/nicole-nemec1/2020/12/07/instana-and-zapm

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/nicole-nemec1/2021/04/20/zapm-connect-and-instana-integration-launch

Videohttps://mediacenter.ibm.com/media/Monitor+your+Z+Workloads+with+Instana+using+IBM+Z+APM+Connect+o/1_9fdny4q3


Use case: MainframeConnecting Instana to your Mainframe

• Mainframe considered a black box: “it’s a mainframe problem”

• 13 of the 15 market-leading APMs identified by Gartner lack any support for IBM Z

• Mainframe integration is based on integrating IBM Z APM Connect• IBM Z APM Connect is one product that feeds multiple supported APM

tools:• Commitment to openness: The IBM Z strategy is to meet our customers

in the market-leading tools they love to reduce the mainframe silo effect• Platform expertise: Only IBM has the vast network of mainframe

expertise to build an integration optimized for this high-efficiency and complex platform

IMS applications supported by current Instana + IBM Z APM Connect integration


Note: components in RED are NOT currently

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CICS applications supported by current Instana + IBM Z APM Connect integration

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Note: components in RED are NOT currently

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Topology example for Mainframe transactions


• Turbonomic Application Resource Management aims for an optimal balance between performance, cost and compliance.

• Acquisition announced in May 2021, not yet finalized.

• IBM already has an OEM relationship with Turbonomic.

Resources:

Solution overviewhttps://www.turbonomic.com/solutions/assure-application-performance/

https://www.turbonomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Instana-Turbonomic-Solution-Overview.pdf

https://www.turbonomic.com/resources/data-sheets/instana-turbonomic-overvie


Use case: Cost & Efficiency ManagementHow can Turbonomic help you to improve efficiency?

Performance

CostCompliance

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SIZING: How should you size containers?

PLACEMENT: When do you need to reschedule (move) pods? To which nodes?

SCALING: When do you need to scale out (or back) the cluster? By how much?

Turbonomic makes the right resource decisions at every layer of the stack.

For container platforms this means...

Play With Websitehttps://play-with.instana.io

Free Trial!https://www.instana.com/trial/

DevOps Case:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgtB7mbF0rE

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