Instana is a German-American software firm[2] based in Solingen[1] as well as Chicago and San Francisco.

[9] 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).

[13] $20 million of this funding was raised in the series B round led by Accel Partners[14] whilst $30 million of this total was raised in the series C round led by Meritech Capital Partners.

[6][1][4] In February 2019 the company employed more than 100 employees in different sites around Solingen,[15] including in the suburb of Ohligs.

[16] In November 2020, IBM, as part of continuing investments in big data and AIs, announced an agreement to acquire Instana.