IBM Instana Observability in 5 Minutes or Less

This C4G Insights brief video introduces IBM Instana observability for business monitoring, showcasing how it extends traditional IT observability to include business processes. It highlights Instana’s ability to automatically detect and track workflows in BPM middleware, linking IT health to business outcomes. Viewers will see how Instana provides real-time insights, enabling teams to drill down into processes like invoice tracking, inspect tasks in detail, and understand the connection between IT systems and business operations—all in under 5 minutes.

Video Transcript:

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Welcome to C4G Insights. In today's brief insight, we're going to cover how IBM Instana Observability for Business Monitoring connects IT performance to business success, ensuring your operations deliver meaningful results. Let's get started. IBM Instana Observability for Business Monitoring gives you real time visibility into your business operations.

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Instana takes observability beyond IT by adding a layer that monitors the business processes supported by your IT applications, middleware and infrastructure. This approach connects business and IT, linking IT performance to business outcomes and opening new opportunities for observability.

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Instana automatically identifies and tracks the execution of business processes running on business process management middleware. It provides ready to use dashboards showing the health and performance of both the processes and the IT systems supporting them.

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Each process is connected to its supporting IT systems, so you can immediately see if changes or issues in IT are affecting your business operations. For each process, you can drill down to track individual instances like these invoices being processed.

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You can see the execution of each activity in detail, making it easy to trace and follow the progress of every invoice. Each activity and task can be reviewed with complete context, showing who initiated it, the IT systems and requests that supported it, and the specific details of the task.

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For example, you can view the invoice creditor, the amount, and the IT infrastructure used to process the activity. IBM Instana Observability for Business Monitoring bridges the gap between business and it, helping operations teams focus on what matters most to your business.

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Of course, this is just a quick look into the power of the IBM Automation suite. If you'd like to learn more, reach out to us at [email protected] or request a free demo at c4genterprises.com/contact Thanks for watching.