Take Control of Your Telemetry: Collect, Process, Store, and Observe Enterprise Data
Observability solutions rely on a well architected telemetry pipeline.
REMOVE COMPLEXITY AND HIGH COSTS WITH ASCENT
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InstaStoreTM technology
Primary object storage with 100% indexing -
Kubernetes-native
True elastic scaling with cluster and pod autoscaling -
100+ integrations
already supported with continuous expansion -
Never Block, Never Drop
architecture preventing data loss -
High Cardinality Support
Advanced data handling capabilities for complex enterprise telemetry requirements
Foundational Tenets of Apica’s Architecture
Up to 40% cost reduction in observability spend
Flexible deployment models from SaaS to on-premises
Reduced operational overhead through centralized management
Future-proof architecture preventing costly migrations
Complementary Approach: Optimize existing investments over costly replacements
Future-proof your data insights
We understand your data challenges. We remove the complexity and cost.
Apica is the anti-vendor-lock-in enterprise observability solution that helps enterprises optimize observability costs while maximizing flexibility.
We don’t replace your existing investments—we make them work better and cost less, solving the telemetry pipeline pain that’s driving up IT budgets and creating operational overhead.
Ascent Intelligent Data Management Features
Enterprise Observability Solutions
Apica’s Flow telemetry pipeline solution revamps data flow between sources and destinations, making data management and enterprise observability easier and more efficient.
From complete data control to creating customizable data lakes, Flow equips you with the following key capabilities:
- 100% data ownership: Aggregate logs from multiple sources and enhance data quality.
- Build robust data pipelines: Easy integration with support for open standards.
- Create data lakes: Develop customizable data lakes for optimal performance.
- Trim excess data: Reduce costs by filtering out non-essential data.
- Augment data attributes: Enhance logs with additional attributes and security events.
Integrating Flow into your telemetry pipeline, you can enhance observability, ensuring that the data collected across your systems is processed efficiently and actionable insights are delivered for proactive decision-making.
Auto scale-out architecture is essential in today’s data-intensive environments, as scale-up architectures are unable to cope with the rapid growth and diverse data sources. Apica’s architecture focuses on dynamically expanding compute and storage resources to accommodate increasing data loads, rather than simply upgrading existing resources.
Built on a native Kubernetes (K8s) platform, Apica automatically adapts to fluctuating data streams and rates by proportionally scaling bandwidth, compute, storage, and throughput. Utilizing Kubernetes containers for computing and object storage for data management, our architecture facilitates seamless auto-scaling to address ever-evolving data demands.
- Dynamic resource expansion
- Kubernetes and Object Storage-based architecture
- Seamless auto-scaling
Unlike many systems such as Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, and Dynatrace, which claim to have decoupled storage and compute, Apica achieves complete decoupling by separating both indexing and retention capacities from compute resources. This results in reduced complexity, enhanced flexibility, and cost optimization in handling the critical dimensions of observability data: volume and retention.
- True compute and storage decoupling
- Addresses data volume and retention challenges
- Fully decoupled ingest, indexing, and retention capacities
For enterprises evaluating data observability tools, Apica’s storage layer leverages any object store or S3-compatible storage as its primary storage layer , allowing the system to accommodate theoretically infinite data growth due to ingestion or long-term retention requirements. This approach provides unparalleled operational agility compared to other industry solutions. Data retention at any volume, from terabytes to petabytes, is consistently managed by the Apica architecture.
Apica is the first real-time platform to combine the advantages of object storage, such as scalability, one-hop lookup, fast retrieval, ease of use, identity management, lifecycle policies, and data archiving. While other self-service log analytics solutions may require expensive management for large-scale volumes, Apica simplifies this process by abstracting it as an S3 API.
- Utilizes object storage or S3-compatible storage
- Theoretically infinite storage capacity
- Consistent handling of TBs or PBs of data
Apica leverages Kubernetes containers for its compute layer, enabling the inherent benefits of autoscaling. Administrators can automatically increase or decrease the number of running pods based on changing data rates. The system efficiently handles data load spikes or gradual increases without manual intervention. Kubernetes Autoscaler ensures the platform can manage surging data rates by scaling out pods and nodes as needed.
The scale-out architecture of Apica allows for seamless ingestion at any scale, from gigabytes to petabytes per second, using a consistent architecture. By incorporating AI/ML-driven algorithms for capacity planning, Apica delivers infinite scale capabilities in a hands-off, worry-free manner.
- Autoscaling with Kubernetes containers
- Dynamic pod/node scaling for fluctuating data rates
- Seamless ingestion at GBs, TBs, and PBs per second
Apica achieves the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by minimizing infrastructure costs and optimizing resource utilization. By using containers and Kubernetes deployments, Apica provides simple management, high availability, fault tolerance, and improved end-user productivity at a lower cost compared to virtual machines and bare-metal servers.
In addition, Apica employs object storage as primary storage, offering similar architectural benefits as Kubernetes does for compute. This results in a Zero Storage tax model for end-users, simplifying both Day 0 and ongoing operations while eliminating storage overheads. Consequently, Apica delivers the lowest possible TCO for scaling storage operations in response to growing data needs.
- Reduced infrastructure costs
- Efficient resource utilization
- Zero Storage tax model
Apica’s distributed Kubernetes-based compute architecture ensures optimal performance-to-scale ratio, enabling real-time ingestion and processing of high-volume data streams. Although S3-compatible storage systems are commonly considered secondary or cold storage, Apica’s innovative engineering delivers real-time query performance with object storage. This unique approach is ideally suited for the observability use case and potentially adaptable for other applications in the future.
- Distributed Kubernetes architecture
- Real-time data ingestion and processing
- Innovative object storage performance
Ascent Observability Solutions
Flow – Telemetry Pipeline
Get decision-ready data in just a few clicks. Take full control of every step in your data journey, from source to destination and back. Cut costs and resolve issues more quickly.
Fleet – Agent Management
Fleet simplifies telemetry data collection by automating agent deployment and configuration, providing insights into the real-time health and performance of your sprawling infrastructure.
Lake – Data Lake
Store and search unlimited operational data with InstaStore covering business, observability, security, network, etc. Without Performance drops or expenses of conventional data lakes.
Observe – Observability
Discover intelligent observability solutions on your terms. Immediate, actionable insights across all data types—built for enterprise IT observability at any scale. Application observability
Advanced Features
Generative AI, data observability tools, security, compliance, and scalability.
Platform Reliability
Security, compliance and scale
Apica’s platform ensures robust security, compliance, and scalability. With advanced authentication, encryption, and Kubernetes monitoring, it protects your data while meeting privacy standards. Seamless scalability keeps your operations secure and reliable as demands grow.
Generative AI Assistant
Unleashing the power of contextualized data
The Ascent platform’s Generative AI capabilities significantly enhance productivity and simplify data analysis, aligning must-need capabilities with the evolving tech landscape.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Apica reduce enterprise observability costs?
Apica reduces observability costs by up to 40% through a Zero Storage tax model, true compute and storage decoupling, Kubernetes-native autoscaling, and filtering out non-essential telemetry data before it reaches your analytics tools.
What is the Never Block Never Drop architecture?
Never Block Never Drop is Apica’s core architectural guarantee that no telemetry data is lost during ingestion or processing. Apica’s pipeline absorbs traffic spikes through Kubernetes autoscaling, ensuring complete data capture at any scale.
Does Apica replace existing observability tools like Datadog or Splunk?
No. Apica takes a complementary approach, optimizing your existing observability investments rather than replacing them. It acts as a telemetry pipeline and storage layer that reduces the data volume sent to downstream tools, lowering costs without disrupting workflows.
What deployment options does Apica support?
Apica supports flexible deployment models including SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid configurations to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.
