Case Study: Yara achieves observable, scalable digital farming on Amazon EKS with IBM Instana

Instana’s Observability for Amazon EKS Helps Yara Deliver Digital Farming Solutions

Yara, a global agricultural company focused on digital farming solutions, needed to accelerate cloud‑native development on AWS while reducing time spent on platform maintenance. To support containerized microservices on Amazon EKS and gain end‑to‑end visibility into performance, Yara turned to IBM Instana and its Observability/APM capabilities for Kubernetes and EKS environments.

IBM Instana deployed automatic, full‑trace observability, SLO/SLI tooling and intelligent alerting across Yara’s Amazon EKS microservices, giving teams real‑time insights down to offending SQL queries and correlated incident reports to avoid alert fatigue. As a result, Yara spends less time on platform upkeep, moves faster on proofs of concept and product releases (e.g., FarmWeather, Yaralrix, Atfarm), has clearer team‑level ownership of API performance, and reports higher internal satisfaction with the cloud‑native stack.

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David Van Damme

Director DevOps and Infrastructure