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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SolarWinds Observability

    N/AN/ASolarWinds Observability is a SaaS offering purpose-built to enable DevOps teams to have unified and correlated end-to-end visibility across the technology stack, from the infrastructure, database and application to the end-user experience. It helps organizations meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and user satisfaction service-level objectives (SLOs). The observability offering helps make it easy to understand and has holistic oversight into service delivery and the individual component…

    $60

    per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)

    Pricing
    ApicaSolarWinds Observability
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Logs
    $60
    per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)
    Digital Experience Observability - Synthetics
    $120
    per year Packs of 10 uptime checks
    Infrastructure Observability
    $180
    per year Per Host (Containers 10:1 Host)
    Network Observability
    $180
    per year Per active network device (With an IP address)
    Application Observability
    $330
    per year Application Instance
    Database Observability
    $840
    per year Per physical or virtual database instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ApicaSolarWinds Observability
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—*Log retention available in 1, 7, 15, 30, and 60 days (for more than 60 days retention, talk to sales).
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    User Ratings
    ApicaSolarWinds Observability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (11 ratings)
    -
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    ApicaSolarWinds Observability
    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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    SolarWinds
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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
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
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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.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
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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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    SolarWinds
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    Usability
    Apica
    As per my experience while using it. Thanks!
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    SolarWinds
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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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    SolarWinds
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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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    SolarWinds
    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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    SolarWinds
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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.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
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