GitLab vs. SolarWinds Observability

GitLab

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
GitLab	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	GitLab 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…	$0 per month per user
SolarWinds Observability	N/A	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

GitLab

SolarWinds Observability

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

Pricing Offerings
GitLab	SolarWinds Observability
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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