Instana is a

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

software firm based in

Solingen Solingen (; li, Solich) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located some 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and, with a 2009 population of 161,366, ...

as well as

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

and

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

. It specialises in developing

application performance management In the fields of information technology and systems management, application performance management (APM) is the monitoring and management of the performance and availability of software applications. APM strives to detect and diagnose complex appli ...

(APM) software.

Products

Instana's software is intended particularly for use in monitoring and managing the performance of software used in

microservice A microservice architecture – a variant of the service-oriented architecture structural style – is an architectural pattern that arranges an application as a collection of loosely-coupled, fine-grained services, communicating through lightwe ...

architectures, and permits 3D visualisation of performance through graphs generated using

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

algorithms, with notifications regarding performance also generated automatically. Instana's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool of the same name is especially purposed for monitoring software used in so-called "container orchestration" (a modular method of providing a software service).

History

The firm was founded in April 2015 by Mirko Novakovic, Pete Abrams, Fabian Lange, and Pavlo Baron as a spin-off of Codecentric (which was founded in 2005). By December 2017, it had received a total of $26 million from investors, and by October 2018, this had risen to a total of $57 million. However this investment came primarily from outside Germany. $20 million of this funding was raised in the series B round led by Accel Partners whilst $30 million of this total was raised in the series C round led by

Meritech Capital Partners Meritech Capital Partners is an American Venture Firm company focused on late-stage venture capital investments in information technology companies with a focus on consumer Internet and media, software and services, enterprise infrastructure, an ...

. In February 2019 the company employed more than 100 employees in different sites around Solingen, including in the suburb of Ohligs. In November 2020, IBM, as part of continuing investments in big data and AIs, announced an agreement to acquire Instana.

References

{{Reflist Business software companies Software companies established in 2015