Instana Baby Steps
This 4 letter Acronym is how fast problems get solved
What is MTTR?
This 2020 acquisition claims to be the first and only fully automated Application Performance Management (APM) solution designed specifically for the challenges of managing microservice and cloud-native applications
What is Instana?
Instana is licensed and entitled by calculating these types of servers
What is a Managed Virtual Server (MVS)?
Manages all communication to the Instana backend
What is the Instana Agent?
Expand M.E.L.T Who am I ?
Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces
The name of Instana's amazing robot mascot
Who is Stan?
IBM's supercomputer Watson competed and won on this TV Show in 2011
What is Jeopardy?
The Instana product type you would recommend if the customer wants to monitor only their Infrastructure
What Infrastructure Quality Monitoring (IQM)?
This Instana component collect details and metric data to provide an accurate representation of the state of a specific technology and pass the collected data to the agent
What is the Instana Sensors?
This crucial process within Instana automatically discovers and maps all application components and dependencies in real-time. What is it?
Auto-discovery
Logical view of your application
Application perspective
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What is Watsonx?
The Instana product type you would recommend if the customer wants to monitor End-to-End application performance
What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?
or Enterprise Observability
These three platforms are used for hosting the Instana Backend when deployed on premise
Single Host, Kubernetes, and Appliance (Beta)
This agent type updates itself automatically and deploys sensors at runtime
Dynamic Agents
Something most competitors do when analyzing data
Sampling
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What is TechZone?
Real-time understanding of how every component impacts every other component and service
What is Context?
Data Retention - All application data including traces and calls are kept for this
What is 7 Days?
Name the Instana capability that leverages machine learning to automatically identify and prioritize the most critical alerts
Smart Alerts & Escalation
This time frame is the granularity of metric gathering by Instana
What is 1 second?
Movie about a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. Space Program
What is Hidden Figures?
This graph provides Real-time detection and mapping of all interdependencies of your applications (Hint - Dependency view)
What is dynamic graph?
Known as the “golden signals” these three metrics are displayed on the summary dashboard for Application Perspectives
What is calls, Erroneous Call Rate, and Response Time?
This Instana feature ensures visibility into services and infrastructure even behind firewalls or in private networks. What is it?
End-to-End Visibility