| Price from | $1,000/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 0 |
| Spec score · eBPF Observability Tools | 7.9 (#11) | 7.0 (#26) |
| Deployment | ApexData offers SaaS with consumption-based billing and on-premise deployment with an annual fixed-cost model; air-gapped deployment is available. | Retina is installed into an existing Kubernetes cluster using Helm. |
| Integrations | The maker says supported integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and the existing monitoring stack. | Retina integrates with Cilium Hubble for additional network insights, including flow logs and DNS information. |
| Intended users | ApexData says it is developer-focused and engineered for large Kubernetes environments. | Retina is aimed at cluster network administrators, cluster security administrators, and DevOps engineers working on DevOps, SecOps, and compliance use cases. |
| Product | ApexData describes itself as an AI-powered observability platform for real-time application and infrastructure insights. | Retina is an open-source Kubernetes network observability platform for monitoring application health, network health, and security. |
| 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 states that Retina images published to GHCR are cryptographically signed and provides cosign verification instructions. |
| Support | The maker advertises dedicated 24/7 support from engineers and founders, hands-on training, guided onboarding, and custom development. | The project directs bug reports and feature requests to GitHub issues and lists [email protected] for other maintainer contact. |
