Apica vs. SolarWinds Observability

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apica
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Apica 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
Score 0.0 out of 10
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SolarWinds 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
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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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ApicaSolarWinds Observability
User Ratings
ApicaSolarWinds Observability
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
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Likelihood to Renew
8.0
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Usability
9.1
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
9.1
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Support Rating
9.1
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In-Person Training
8.2
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Online Training
8.2
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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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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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9.1
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User Testimonials
ApicaSolarWinds Observability
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Pros
  • 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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Cons
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
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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Usability
As per my experience while using it. Thanks!
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Support Rating
Apica Synthetic is very effective while configuring the account setup for any of the database/UserID.
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Implementation Rating
Easy for implementation in our Infrastructure, Easy for troubleshooting the issue and Easy to use as well.
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Alternatives Considered
Apica Synthetic is more efficient than other competitors; our main priority is gain in the effort, time, and customer satisfaction, which Apica Synthetic definitely guarantees. Real-time alerts are just perfect which is exactly what we need, I can't say the same about other tools that may be less expensive but also less efficient.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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