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Apica

Apica

Cloud Load Testing Commercial Cloud

Frequently asked

Is it open source?

No. Apica is listed as commercial.

What protocols does it support?

Apica supports HTTP, HTTPS, REST.

Is it cloud or self-hosted?

Apica is listed as cloud.

Is it still maintained?

Apica is listed as active.

Apica currently presents an observability platform with synthetic monitoring and a load test portal. Its services target web, API, and enterprise application performance workflows.

About

Apica is an enterprise observability and telemetry data management platform designed to help organizations collect, process, enrich, govern, and store telemetry data (metrics, events, logs, and traces—collectively known as MELT data). It acts as a telemetry pipeline that integrates with existing observability investments (such as Splunk, Datadog, or open-source stacks) to reduce observability costs and eliminate vendor lock-in. Built for the "AI era," the platform focuses on providing data readiness for AI agents.

Features

  • Flow: Telemetry pipeline for routing, shaping, and governing data
  • Fleet: Centralized agent management for data collection
  • Lake: Elastic, high-performance data storage powered by InstaStore™ technology
  • Observe: Analytics and visualization suite for MELT data
  • Never Block, Never Drop architecture for data reliability
  • Kubernetes-native autoscaling
  • Advanced visualizations (e.g., box plots, heatmaps, bubble charts, Sankey diagrams)
  • Real User Monitoring (RUM) and SLO management dashboards

Pricing

Pricing models include transparent per-GB consumption-based pricing for telemetry ingestion, and capacity-based pricing for specific products like Apica Forge. Some services, such as HIDS, offer a free plan for up to 20 hosts (self-hosted) and paid options starting at $5/host/mo. Annual contracts are available with discounts for SaaS deployments.

Author / Company

Apica (the company has Swedish origins)

AI features

  • Agentic-ready telemetry management for AI systems
  • Out-of-the-box LLM (Large Language Model) monitoring dashboards
  • Real-time access to telemetry data for AI agents
  • Optimized telemetry infrastructure to support AI agent data volumes without cost explosions

Latest release

Ascent 2.16.0 · 2026-08-11 (latest identified version Ascent 2.16.0 based on documentation)

Version 2.16.0 introduced a new SLO experience for tracking service reliability, health, and error budgets. It also added a new Real User Monitoring (RUM) dashboard for collecting web performance metrics (TTFB, LCP, INP, CLS), support for static text and counter widgets in Data Explore dashboards, and an out-of-the-box LLM monitoring dashboard. Enhanced reporting capabilities were added for Apica Ascent Synthetics, along with a new alert destination dashboard.

Sources

GROUNDED VIA EXA · 2026-08-11

Signal notes

License
Commercial
Deployment
Cloud
Pricing
Commercial plans; contact vendor.
First released
Not verified
Scripting
JavaScript
Protocols
HTTP, HTTPS, REST
Operating systems
Browser
Tags
monitoring · saas · enterprise
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