| Price from | $1,000/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 0 |
| Spec score · eBPF Observability Tools | 7.9 (#11) | 7.0 (#25) |
| Deployment | ApexData offers SaaS with consumption-based billing and on-premise deployment with an annual fixed-cost model; air-gapped deployment is available. | Kerno can run as a Kubernetes DaemonSet or as a binary on bare metal, VMs, EC2, and GCE; Docker images are published for Linux amd64 and arm64. |
| Integrations | The maker says supported integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and the existing monitoring stack. | The project lists Prometheus metrics and ServiceMonitor support, Kubernetes pod enrichment, optional Anthropic, OpenAI, and Ollama providers, and systemd enrichment. |
| Security | The AI Investigation page says ApexData can be deployed on the customer’s cluster or VPC, that data stays in the customer’s infrastructure, and that it is SOC 2 Type II compliant. | The project says Kerno makes no outbound network calls by default and that AI integration is opt-in through the configured provider. |
| Support | The maker advertises dedicated 24/7 support from engineers and founders, hands-on training, guided onboarding, and custom development. | The security policy directs general questions to GitHub Discussions and vulnerability reports to [email protected], with acknowledgment targeted within 48 hours. |
