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CubeAPM
CubeAPM is a full-stack observability and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform designed for engineering teams.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Full-stack observability and APM platform with unlimited retention, hosted inside your cloud.
Who should look elsewhere
No explicit free tier or trial mentioned on the pricing page, only a sandbox option.
Pros
- +Hosted inside your cloud (VPC) or on-premise for data localization and compliance.
- +Predictable pricing at $0.15/GB for data ingestion with no hidden fees.
- +Unlimited data retention for logs, traces, and metrics.
- +Built natively on OpenTelemetry, preventing vendor lock-in.
- +Significant cost savings compared to traditional SaaS APMs (up to 75%).
Cons
- −No explicit free tier or trial mentioned on the pricing page, only a sandbox option.
- −Requires deployment within user's infrastructure, which might be a barrier for some small teams.
- −Pricing model is based on data ingestion, which can still scale with usage.
Key features
- ✓End-to-End Application Performance Monitoring
- ✓Log Management with Unlimited Retention
- ✓Cloud-Native Infrastructure Monitoring
- ✓Real User Monitoring
- ✓Synthetic Monitoring
- ✓Intelligent Error Tracking
- ✓Distributed Tracing
- ✓Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $0.15 | month | APM; Distributed Tracing; Log Management |
| Enterprise | — | month | APM; Distributed Tracing; Log Management |