Engineering Lifecycle Management monitoring using IBM Instana

Engineering Lifecycle Management is agnostic to the choice of monitoring tool used. However, it is vitally important that you use a monitoring tool to understand your systems' usage as well as to plan future needs. IBM Instana is a fully automated Application Performance Management (APM) solution designed specifically for the challenges of managing microservice and cloud-native applications. The same capabilities also allow for observability of an ELM software stack from the platform to the application.

ELM monitoring and serviceability have an extensive history over many releases. It is possible to monitor the ELM applications through JMX MBeans, which is just one aspect of the Instana telemetry that provides system-wide observability, indeed, systems-of-systems-wide observability.

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Using Instana to monitor Db2

Greg Sorensen posted the following article on the Community pages, on 7th October 2025: DB2 Performance and Lock Analysis using Instana Observability.

Greg states "Maintaining the performance and reliability of IBM DB2 databases is critical to business operations. This report highlights the capabilities of Instana's dedicated DB2 sensor and observability platform in proactively monitoring database health and rapidly diagnosing performance bottlenecks, particularly those caused by database lock contention and long-running queries.

Instana provides full-stack observability, meaning it automatically tracks performance metrics from the application layer down to the underlying DB2 instance. This capability ensures that you can transition from reactive troubleshooting to proactive performance optimization, significantly reducing downtime and improving application responsiveness."

Related topics: ELM Monitoring, Deployment web home

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