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Instana Releases Automated Monitoring and Tracing Solution for Applications Running on AWS Fargate

Instana announced new monitoring and tracing capabilities for applications running on AWS Fargate.

Instana's automated Fargate application monitoring captures a distributed trace of every application request.

“As organizations continue to look for ways to minimize their operation costs while providing highly scalable applications, the usage of Serverless technologies such as Amazon Fargate continues to grow,” said Chris Farrell, Technical Director and APM Strategist at Instana. “Instana’s support for monitoring and tracing application functions running on Fargate allows Dev and Ops teams to get all the visibility they need without taking on additional development or operational costs.”

Instana’s monitoring and tracing capabilities on Fargate work the same way as Instana’s other infrastructure, service and application functionality, including automatic deployment, configuration, monitoring and tracing of all requests with zero development involvement. This not only ensures end-to-end visibility of every user request, it also guarantees the most optimal use of development time and computing time.

Today’s announcement follows recent releases of support for natively monitoring, tracing and profiling Lambda serverless functions. One key advantage of Instana’s native monitoring solution is the ability to connect serverless performance data with other platforms, allowing complete captures of distributed traces and inclusion of serverless information in the company’s analytics engine called Unbounded Analytics.

Instana’s automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution discovers all application service components and application infrastructure, including infrastructure such as AWS Lambda, Kubernetes and Docker. Instana automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application technology stack, traces all application requests and profiles every process – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects application and infrastructure changes in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and any performance impact in seconds.

The latest serverless monitoring features for Fargate and Lambda are available in the product today, along with End User Monitoring, automatic profiling and the analytics engine.

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Instana Releases Automated Monitoring and Tracing Solution for Applications Running on AWS Fargate

Instana announced new monitoring and tracing capabilities for applications running on AWS Fargate.

Instana's automated Fargate application monitoring captures a distributed trace of every application request.

“As organizations continue to look for ways to minimize their operation costs while providing highly scalable applications, the usage of Serverless technologies such as Amazon Fargate continues to grow,” said Chris Farrell, Technical Director and APM Strategist at Instana. “Instana’s support for monitoring and tracing application functions running on Fargate allows Dev and Ops teams to get all the visibility they need without taking on additional development or operational costs.”

Instana’s monitoring and tracing capabilities on Fargate work the same way as Instana’s other infrastructure, service and application functionality, including automatic deployment, configuration, monitoring and tracing of all requests with zero development involvement. This not only ensures end-to-end visibility of every user request, it also guarantees the most optimal use of development time and computing time.

Today’s announcement follows recent releases of support for natively monitoring, tracing and profiling Lambda serverless functions. One key advantage of Instana’s native monitoring solution is the ability to connect serverless performance data with other platforms, allowing complete captures of distributed traces and inclusion of serverless information in the company’s analytics engine called Unbounded Analytics.

Instana’s automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution discovers all application service components and application infrastructure, including infrastructure such as AWS Lambda, Kubernetes and Docker. Instana automatically deploys monitoring sensors for each part of the application technology stack, traces all application requests and profiles every process – without requiring any human configuration or even application restarts. The solution detects application and infrastructure changes in real-time, adjusting its own models and visualizing the changes and any performance impact in seconds.

The latest serverless monitoring features for Fargate and Lambda are available in the product today, along with End User Monitoring, automatic profiling and the analytics engine.

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An overwhelming majority of IT leaders (95%) believe the upcoming wave of AI-powered digital transformation is set to be the most impactful and intensive seen thus far, according to The Science of Productivity: AI, Adoption, And Employee Experience, a new report from Nexthink ...

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Regardless of their scale, business decisions often take time, effort, and a lot of back-and-forth discussion to reach any sort of actionable conclusion ... Any means of streamlining this process and getting from complex problems to optimal solutions more efficiently and reliably is key. How can organizations optimize their decision-making to save time and reduce excess effort from those involved? ...

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According to Auvik's 2025 IT Trends Report, 60% of IT professionals feel at least moderately burned out on the job, with 43% stating that their workload is contributing to work stress. At the same time, many IT professionals are naming AI and machine learning as key areas they'd most like to upskill ...

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IT spending is expected to jump nearly 10% in 2025, and organizations are now facing pressure to manage costs without slowing down critical functions like observability. To meet the challenge, leaders are turning to smarter, more cost effective business strategies. Enter stage right: OpenTelemetry, the missing piece of the puzzle that is no longer just an option but rather a strategic advantage ...

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