Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
Apica Wins at the 2023 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award
In a significant achievement in digital transformation, APICA has been honored with the prestigious Winter 2023 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award. This recognition comes from Intellyx, the pioneering analyst firm exclusively focused on digital transformation, and the trailblazing vendors spearheading this journey. The Intellyx Digital Innovator Awards are not just accolades; they are a testament to … Read more
OpenTelemetry Best Practices for 2026: Improve Monitoring and Cut Costs
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the open-source, vendor-neutral standard for collecting telemetry: traces, metrics, logs, and now continuous profiles, from cloud-native applications. In May 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated OpenTelemetry, the same status held by Kubernetes and Prometheus, cementing it as the de facto standard for observability data. The project now counts more than … Read more
Apica Ascent Triumphs in 2023 SoftwareReviews APM Report
Apica’s Ascent has achieved remarkable results in the 2023 Application Performance Management Data Quadrant Report published by SoftwareReviews, a notable source for insights on the software provider landscape. The report gathers extensive customer experience data from business and IT professionals, offering detailed and authentic insights into the experience of evaluating and purchasing enterprise software. Highlights … Read more
What is OpenTelemetry? A Comprehensive Guide
Modern applications rarely run as one thing. A single user request might touch a dozen services, written in different languages, deployed on different infrastructure, owned by different teams. When something breaks, the hard part usually isn’t fixing it. It’s finding out where the problem started. OpenTelemetry exists to solve that visibility problem: a single, vendor-neutral … Read more
The Power of Machine Data Analytics
Fluentd vs. Logstash: The Ultimate Log Agent Battle
Logging and log management are critical aspects of modern IT management, monitoring, and security. Regardless of whether your IT systems follow monolithic or microservices architecture, they are complex due to the number of moving parts and the challenges they unwittingly pose around management, deployment, and scaling. Log management systems provide DevOps teams and SREs a … Read more
Log Management: The Apica Way
What is Observability? The Bigger Picture
“Isn’t observability just a fancy term for monitoring?” That’d be the response from most IT folks a few years back if you asked them about it. And here we are in 2023, where Observability now is as imperative a term as security itself. Observability, as a concept in software engineering and system monitoring, has met … Read more
InstaStore™: Data Storage for the Modern Enterprise
The dynamic landscape of technology has ushered in a new era of data management and storage. As organizations grapple with the vast amount of data they generate and collect, cloud data management and storage have become invaluable solutions. Yet, this convenience comes with its own set of challenges. This blog post will explore the major … Read more
Presenting Generative AI Integration in the Apica Ascent Platform
If generative AI is innovative for enterprises in 2023, being cloud-based is ubiquitous. What that means is that the data today is extremely voluminous and complex. Not to mention that all that data needs proactive monitoring and analysis. That being said, data in observability and monitoring can often be complex and challenging to understand due … Read more
Cisco-Splunk Acquisition: A Lesson in Vendor Independence
In the ever-evolving landscape of technology and business, mergers and acquisitions have become a common occurrence. The latest buzz in the tech world revolves around the Cisco-Splunk acquisition, in which the former acquires the latter for a staggering $28 billion! This marks the fifth major acquisition in the AIOps and Observability space this year alone, following SumoLogic, … Read more
Simplifying Microservices Debugging on Kubernetes with Istio, OTel, and Apica
Microservices architecture has become increasingly popular in modern software development due to its scalability, resilience, and flexibility. However, with the benefits of microservices come the challenges of debugging and monitoring these distributed systems. Using the Istio service mesh, OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, and Apica’s Kubernetes-nativeobservability platform, developers can easily collect and visualize performance data in real-timeto … Read more
