Replacement Guide

How to Build Your Own IBM Instana Observability

Replace IBM Instana Observability with a custom build. Full-stack observability powered by agentic AI

Weekend Project
14 features2 integrationsOne weekend

Estimated Timeline

Based on 14 features at Weekend Project difficulty, expect about One weekend with AI-assisted development.

1
Setup & scaffolding
2 hours
2
Core features
4-6 hours
3
Polish & deploy
2 hours

Recommended Tech Stack

Next.js 14

Full-stack React framework with API routes and server components

Supabase

PostgreSQL database, auth, and real-time subscriptions

Tailwind CSS

Utility-first styling for rapid UI development

Key Features to Replicate

Top features across 8 categories. See all 14 features

AI(2 features)

Agentic AI Incident InvestigationAIPremium

Investigate and resolve IT incidents faster with agentic AI. Eliminate manual work like runbook creation and incident summarization

GenAI ObservabilityAIPremium

Instana automatically discovers and maps GenAI workflows and agents, connecting prompts, outputs, tokens, latency, cost, and errors to full-stack context

Incident Management(2 features)

Application Incident RemediationAIPremium

AI-powered probable-cause analysis can identify and remediate incidents with fewer false positives

Context Capture and Remediation

Capture full application and infrastructure context to remediate issues and reduce revenue-robbing downtime

Monitoring(2 features)

Automated Observability

Access high fidelity full-stack data in real time—updated every second—to identify, trace and fix issues before they impact users

Real-Time Data Visibility

Get upstream and downstream visibility of application and infrastructure environments for over 300 platforms

Alerting(1 features)

ML-Driven Smart AlertsAI

Count on ML-driven smart alerts to proactively identify problems so you troubleshoot faster and reduce mean time to resolution

Automation(1 features)

Incident Response AutomationAIPremium

Automate issue resolution and turn context into actions

Dashboards(1 features)

Ready-to-Use Dashboards

Start to work faster with ready-to-use dashboards for immediate debugging and monitoring

Deployment(1 features)

Multi-Environment Support

Deploy where you need to - Whatever your IT environment mix—public cloud, on-premises, IaaS—track interconnected dependencies across today's complex cloud-native landscape

Integrations(1 features)

300+ Platform Support

Out-of-the box integrations with no plug-ins or application restarts. Support for third-party technologies and IBM proprietary software and infrastructure

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