Chronosphere vs Instana
ChronosphereObservability
$180,000 / yrPublished price
InstanaNetwork Performance Monitoring
Chronosphere Observability Observability Purpose Built for Kubernetes | Instana Network Performance Monitoring Full-stack observability powered by agentic AI | |
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| Overview | ||
| Category | Observability | Network Performance Monitoring |
| What it is | Cloud-native observability platform designed to tame monitoring data growth with control over cardinality and cost optimization. | IBM enterprise observability platform with automatic application discovery, tracing, and root cause analysis for complex systems. |
| Pricing | ||
| Published price | $180,000 / yr Vendor sells custom, consumption-based contracts (charged on the volume of useful telemetry data retained, not per host). AWS Marketplace lists a public 12-month SaaS contract at… | Instana's current public materials do not provide a citable numeric starting price for the commercial offering. Pricing is therefore treated as sales-led or quote-based. |
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Not available |
| Free options | No free plan · No free trial | No free plan · Free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2019 | 2015 |
| Team size | 201-500 employees | 201-500 employees |
| Headquarters | New York, NY | Chicago, IL |