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    Apica

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AApica is an observability cost optimization provider helping IT teams gain complete control over their telemetry data economics. Apica Ascent processes all observability data types including metrics, logs, traces, and events while optimizing observability costs.N/A

    GitLab

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. Differentiators, as described by Gitlab: Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can…

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    ApicaGitLab
    Editions & Modules
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    GitLab Essential
    $0
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    GitLab Premium
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
    $99
    per month per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    ApicaGitLab
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    98%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    ApicaGitLab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (11 ratings)
    8.9
    (142 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.9
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    Usability
    9.1
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    9.0
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    Availability
    9.1
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    Performance
    9.1
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    ApicaGitLab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apica
    As I use this for only my area, it is very well suited to what I need it to do. Apica Synthetic monitors two different web applications in a time interval that is easily customizable for uptime and latency. These are critical indicators for a cloud-based point-of-sale system. We need solid uptime and limited latency across the enterprise.
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    GitLab
    GitLab is good if you work a lot with code and do complex repository actions. It gives you a very good overview of what were the states of your branches and the files in them at different stages in time. It's also way easier and more efficient to write pipelines for CI\CD. It's easier to read and it's easier to write them. It takes fewer clicks to achieve the same things with GitLab than it does for competitor products.
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    Pros
    Apica
    • Auto alerts trigger if any issue is identified
    • Graphical representation of the health of applications
    • Good product support from the team
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    GitLab
    • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
    • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
    • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
    • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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    Cons
    Apica
    • It's very clunky. Infrastructure is large and very difficult to upgrade.
    • SaaS and On-premise versions are different. There is an LDAP integration but users can only be assigned to one group (i.e. department). If you are in 2 departments, you need 2 separate logins.
    • Update: they now offer federated logins
    • It filled a gap in monitoring for us, but we're looking to move on.
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    GitLab
    • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
    • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
    • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apica
    We trust the results that Apica Synthetic has achieved. Real-time alerting is critical to our clients and with limited resources, we can't handle many false positives; Apica Synthetic is the only solution that provides both of those features.
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    GitLab
    I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
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    Usability
    Apica
    As per my experience while using it. Thanks!
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    GitLab
    I find it easy to use, I haven't had to do the integration work, so that's why it is a 9/10, cause I can't speak to how easy that part was or the initial set up, but day to day use is great!
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apica
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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    Performance
    Apica
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    GitLab
    GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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    Support Rating
    Apica
    Apica Synthetic is very effective while configuring the account setup for any of the database/UserID.
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    GitLab
    At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft
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    Implementation Rating
    Apica
    Easy for implementation in our Infrastructure, Easy for troubleshooting the issue and Easy to use as well.
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    GitLab
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Apica
    We were using different monitoring tools for different requirements (e.g.,Nagios and Checkmk for infrastructure issues) and we were in need of a tool for service and API monitoring for which we were using ThousandEye. But alerts were 60-70% valid irrespective of conditions like network issues. But Apica Synthetic's alert mechanism is a perfect fit for our department. It helped us to reduce unnecessary/false alerts and a number of wrong tickets.
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    GitLab
    Gitlab seems more cutting-edge than GitHub; however, its AI tools are not yet as mature as those of CoPilot. It feels like the next-generation product, so as we selected a tool for our startup, we decided to invest in the disruptor in the space. While there are fewer out-of-the-box templates for Gitlab, we have never discovered a lack of feature parity.
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    Scalability
    Apica
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    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    Return on Investment
    Apica
    • My department is not charged for Apica Synthetic so no ROI, but from a customer service perspective, we can react to an outage and repair it faster than our customers can report the outage.
    • Our vendor's own monitoring tools are not as accurate nor as timely as ours. They rely on us telling them, from Apica Synthetic, that they have an issue.
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    GitLab
    • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
    • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
    • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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