Instana has a simple goal, make life easier for DevOps. DevOps teams have a hard problem! 

Application Performance Management (APM) has become a key element to achieving performance and availability of business-critical applications. Around 2005-2008, a second generation of APM tools were introduced built for monitoring service-oriented architectures (SOA), those products are usually referred to as APM 2.0.

Our product vision: Auto Discover Everything, Realtime Data, No Configuration, No Impact on Applications, Prediction of Incidents and Exact Understanding, requires us to innovate every aspect of our solution. Every layer of our product; our Agent technology, our APM tracing technology, our compression technology, our streaming technology, our data storage technology, our knowledge learning & persistence technology, and finally our GUI technology is leveraging state of the art techniques and frameworks.