Apica vs. SolarWinds Observability

Apica

SolarWinds Observability

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting 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	N/A	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

Apica

SolarWinds 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
Apica	SolarWinds Observability
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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*Log retention available in 1, 7, 15, 30, and 60 days (for more than 60 days retention, talk to sales).

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Community Pulse
	Apica	SolarWinds Observability
Considered Both Products	Apica BM BENAOUN Mahdi Software Developer Chose Apica 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 … Incentivized Helpful? SP Shivani Pandey Project Engineer Chose Apica Dynatrace Incentivized Helpful? SK Sachin Kumar Senior SRC Engineer Chose 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apica We actually preferred IP HostMonitor over Apica Synthetic, as it was more stable and uses less real estate. IP HostMonitor does not support true load simulation, which we miss from the Apica Synthetic trials. Incentivized Helpful? MM Michael McClanahan Senior Manager Enterprise POS Chose Apica Google AdSense Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apica I have used Microfocus Loadrunner (formerly HP Vugen/BSM), Dynatrace Synthetic, and Gomez. Apica Synthetic has a good price point for its functionality. Dynatrace and Microfocus are expensive. Dynatrace and Gomez are easier to use than Apica Synthetic. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apica Apica Synthetic is perfect for monitoring our products that customers use since we create scenarios and API calls that reflect how the customer uses our products. However, for server monitoring and monitoring internal products, both Zabbix and Prometheus have the upper hand. … Incentivized Helpful? JD James Dunn Jr. Senior Computer Operator Chose Apica I have never used other products that would stack up to what Apica Synthetic does for our company; other software that we use might help with giving different information but would not come close to the mix of monitoring and data we get from Apica Synthetic. The closest product … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apica Apica Synthetic is more flexible when making custom checks. The support from Apica Synthetic can help you with nearly every check you have to do. Incentivized Helpful? PS Prashant Saxena Rahul SRE Chose Apica App dynamics and ignite we used for monitoring perspective. We used these monitoring tools along with Apica dashboard monitoring. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apica Seemed to work well, but we didn't want to do a long renewal. Other products are maturing and better integrated with our systems. It works for now, but we're looking to replace it. Update: New Relic has caught up with Apica and seems to integrate better with the other aspects of … Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Observability No answer on this topic

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User Ratings
	Apica	SolarWinds Observability
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Apica	SolarWinds 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. Incentivized MM Michael McClanahan Senior Manager Enterprise POS Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Auto alerts trigger if any issue is identified Graphical representation of the health of applications Good product support from the team Incentivized SP Shivani Pandey Project Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized BENAOUN Mahdi Software Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	As per my experience while using it. Thanks! PS Prashant Saxena Rahul SRE Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Apica Synthetic is very effective while configuring the account setup for any of the database/UserID. PS Prashant Saxena Rahul SRE Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Easy for implementation in our Infrastructure, Easy for troubleshooting the issue and Easy to use as well. PS Prashant Saxena Rahul SRE Read full review	No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized BENAOUN Mahdi Software Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized MM Michael McClanahan Senior Manager Enterprise POS Read full review	No answers on this topic
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