CubeAPM vs. GitLab

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CubeAPM
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
CubeAPM is a full-stack observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that enables engineering teams to monitor services, infrastructure, logs, and metrics from a single pane of glass. Teams can self-host CubeAPM inside their own cloud or on-premises environment, or use it as a managed deployment. It delivers full-stack visibility with smart sampling, alerting, tracing, and unlimited data retention at a flat usage-based price of $0.15 per GB. Many teams face a trade-off in…
$0.15
per month per GB
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, where software teams enable AI at every stage of the software lifecycle to ship faster. The platform enables teams to automate repetitive tasks across planning, building, securing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software.
$0
per month per user
Pricing
CubeAPMGitLab
Editions & Modules
Pro
$0.15
per month Per GB
GitLab Free (self-managed)
$0
GitLab Free
$0
GitLab Premium
$29
per month per user
GitLab Premium (self-managed)
$29
per month per user
GitLab Ultimate
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GitLab Ultimate (self-managed)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CubeAPMGitLab
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsCubeAPM follows a transparent & predictable usage-based pricing model starting at $0.15 per GB of data ingested per month. Unlike traditional APM tools that charge by host or agent, CubeAPM pricing scales linearly with data volume—no hidden fees, overages, or lock-ins. Teams can deploy self-hosted or managed versions with unlimited data retention and predictable monthly billing. Enterprise plans include ISO 27001-certified infrastructure, dedicated support, and volume-based discounts.GitLab Credits enable flexible, consumption-based access to agentic AI capabilities in the GitLab platform, allowing you to scale AI adoption at your own pace while maintaining cost predictability. Powered by Duo Agent Platform, GitLab’s agentic AI capabilities help software teams to collaborate at AI speed, without compromising quality and enterprise security. If usage exceeds monthly allocations and overage terms are accepted, automated on-demand billing activates without service interruption, so your developers never lose access to AI capabilities they need. Real-time dashboards provide transparency into AI consumption patterns. Software teams can see usage across users, projects, and groups with granular attribution for cost allocation. Automated threshold alerts facilitate proactive planning. Advanced analytics deliver trending, forecasting, and FinOps integration.
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CubeAPMGitLab
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User Ratings
CubeAPMGitLab
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(168 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(20 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(12 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CubeAPMGitLab
Likelihood to Recommend
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
most of the needs are covered.
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GitLab
In general it's a good product with a huge number of features. It can do CI/CD checks, deployment, repo hosting, integrations etc. A lot of it can be managed from just the UI but also has an ok API. It does tend to release new features semi-often too which is nice. It can have a steep learning curve for certain features so not a starter-friendly vendor, but great for most businesses.
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Pros
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • Alerting on set matrices
  • View graphs for needed matrices of our Application
  • with lower cost w.r.t the service we were using previously.
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GitLab
  • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
  • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
  • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
  • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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Cons
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • if posible more details on DB query, Like NR used to give details of even Index used for that slow query. This might make easy to solve slow DB query ( wrong-index issue)
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GitLab
  • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
  • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
  • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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Likelihood to Renew
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
GitLab
I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
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Usability
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
We uses it.
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GitLab
- As a combination of features and products, GitLab is a really great tool for developers. - Also, it comes with both light and quick changes in a web browser version, as well as pro work in VS Code mode. However, in certain areas, such as large-scale issues/incidents, management can be improved.
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Reliability and Availability
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
GitLab
I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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Performance
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
GitLab
GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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Support Rating
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
GitLab
At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft
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Alternatives Considered
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
Satisfactory
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GitLab
GitHub is an inferior product from most points of view. We had to use it and the teams finds no positives about it. Everything is a downgrade from our previous GitLab solution. GitLab CI\CD is vastly superior to workflows, for example doing a manual node is just "when : manual" in GitLab while you have to do clickops in GitHub to achieve the same. No overview of code in branches is a minus when we tried to figure out what our colleagues are trying to merge as it looked off.
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Scalability
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
GitLab
I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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Return on Investment
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • Gave us the needed feature which we were using with lower cost
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GitLab
  • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
  • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
  • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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ScreenShots

CubeAPM Screenshots

Screenshot of the CubeAPM Home pageScreenshot of an APM pageScreenshot of log managementScreenshot of the Real User Monitoring dashboardScreenshot of Infrastructure MonitoringScreenshot of Error Tracking

GitLab Screenshots

Screenshot of What is Intelligent Orchestration for DevSecOps?Screenshot of an overview of GitLab Duo Agent PlatformScreenshot of a new agent creation screen