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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

    Google Cloud Operations Suite

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AThe Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) is an APM platform based on three tools for error detection, tracing, and resolution. It manages cloud-based or on-premise applications in live or mid-production environments.

    $0.01

    per 1,000 read API calls

    Pricing
    ApicaGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Monitoring API Calls
    $0.01
    per 1,000 read API calls
    Trace Ingestion
    $0.20
    per million spans
    Monitoring Data
    $0.26
    per MB
    Logging Data
    $0.50
    per GB
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ApicaGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ApicaGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
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    Apica
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
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    Features
    ApicaGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Apica and Google Cloud Operations Suite
    Feature
    Apica
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    Ratings
    Google Cloud Operations Suite
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ApicaGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (11 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 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)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    ApicaGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    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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    Google
    Easy to set up in all environments. With this tool, the company is now able to measure both well-functioning data and data that needs immediate intervention. This early detection facilitates decisions about actions to correct the disorder and improve indexes. Stackdriver is now essential for the company's security and monitoring team and we plan to expand to other branches.
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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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    Google
    • All the application error reporting available at a single place.
    • You will get the real-time application error and alerts.
    • It's really easy to use and no need to worry for the setup.
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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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    Google
    • For searching and filtering the logs the system is slow sometimes.
    • An agent needs to be installed in each VM to monitor specific metrics.
    • The pricing model is confusing.
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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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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Apica
    As per my experience while using it. Thanks!
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Apica
    Apica Synthetic is very effective while configuring the account setup for any of the database/UserID.
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    Google
    It is also a great problem detection tool, and this is extremely important for General Motors.
    The user can count on the ease of flexible panels and advanced visualization tools that help to identify problems. Among the most common, we can mention:
    - containment of hosts;
    - cloud provider limitation;
    - hardware wear.
    And also Stackdriver Integration with other Google Cloud data tools such as BigQuery, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Cloud Database.
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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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    Google
    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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    Google
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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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    Google
    • We completely depends on Stackdriver for error monitoring and reporting.
    • Stackdriver is very simple to use and available at default.
    • Stackdriver is the key part for our business to get the insight of our application behavior.
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