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PROS

Apica significantly improves release management by monitoring different environments, detecting critical issues before production, and alerting teams post-release.
It offers valuable features like WebHooks, an effective alert framework, and comprehensive reporting and visualizations via dashboards.
The combination of cloud and on-prem architecture provides global flexibility for load testing, enabling testing from various locations with swift support for additional agents.
Apica enhances script configuration by allowing the capture of dynamic variables and facilitates API recording with auto-correlation, optimizing the monitoring setup.
Teams benefit from Apica's ability to closely mimic customer actions, providing customizable monitoring checks that preemptively detect issues, enhancing service reliability.

CONS

Apica generates frequent alerts, with no option to reduce their number to a minimal level.
User learning is challenging due to a proprietary framework, and its cumbersome nature could be improved by integrating more well-known languages.
Polling times for synthetic checks could be further reduced.
The requirement to install the application on the desktop for features like ZebraTester is cumbersome; a move to a web-based application would be beneficial.
Apica cannot independently perform endurance or scale-up tests and lacks features for mobile application testing.
 

Apica Pros review quotes

PA
Test Automation Specialist -Full Stack at IBM
Feb 12, 2025
Apica allows me to record APIs easily and enhances scripts through options like auto-correlation, enabling me to access dynamic fields.
Punith H K - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys
Jun 13, 2024
The solution’s real-time monitoring features have had a huge impact on our service delivery.
Priya Raman - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
May 20, 2024
The solution captures all our requests and responses.
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KN
Software Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
May 10, 2024
It is easy for beginners to learn and use Apica.
Anuhya Lakkireddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Tester at MetLife
Apr 18, 2024
I like the transcript download feature. And with UI scripting, it's helpful that Apica handles a lot of the backend work automatically. I don't have to tag everything manually, though I can tag elements later if needed. It's really good at recording the steps.
Neeti Sagar - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Engineer at Good Work Hub
Apr 16, 2024
It uses a basic scripting language, which is easy to learn and customize as needed. Compared to LoadRunner, I found writing and customizing code much easier in Apica.
Sofonias Fiseha - PeerSpot reviewer
Application performance tester at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Jun 25, 2024
Anyone can understand the solution easily because it doesn't require a specific scripted language.
RyanVassallo - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Systems and Infrastructure at Booming Games
Apr 19, 2024
What I like the most is that Apica can simulate different browsers and different versions of desktop or mobile browsers.
reviewer2398023 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
May 6, 2024
The GUI is powerful and doesn't require scripting or regular expressions. It has a vast finder for correlation, which is easier than other tools like JMeter and LoadRunner. It's also easy to integrate with other tools with a separate execution environment. The tool is also easy to use.
DD
Senior APM Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 2, 2021
There are several features that are really good. The first one is the flexibility and the advanced configuration that Apica offers when it comes to configuring synthetic checks. It provides the ability to customize how the check should be performed and it is very flexible in the number of synthetic locations that it can use. It allows us to run scripts from different locations all over the world, and they have a really good number of these locations.
 

Apica Cons review quotes

PA
Test Automation Specialist -Full Stack at IBM
Feb 12, 2025
Apica cannot perform endurance or scale-up tests independently.
Punith H K - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys
Jun 13, 2024
It is difficult to create a script using ZebraTester.
Priya Raman - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Performance Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
May 20, 2024
The tool does not provide automatic correlation features.
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KN
Software Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
May 10, 2024
If you are adding any input file, the tool fails to capture the path.
Anuhya Lakkireddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Tester at MetLife
Apr 18, 2024
We could use more detailed information in the request and response sections.
Neeti Sagar - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Engineer at Good Work Hub
Apr 16, 2024
Apica was a relatively new tool when I started using it. Although Apica had good documentation, it still felt less developed or advanced than a tool like LoadRunner.
Sofonias Fiseha - PeerSpot reviewer
Application performance tester at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Jun 25, 2024
Apica is costly, and there's no way to test mobile applications through Apica.
RyanVassallo - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Systems and Infrastructure at Booming Games
Apr 19, 2024
Apica should add more features and integrations with different tools and certain ticketing systems, like ServiceNow.
reviewer2398023 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
May 6, 2024
I have noticed that the tool isn't widely recognized outside our organization. Also, there aren't any tutorials or dedicated resources for this tool, making it challenging for newcomers to learn. It would be beneficial if someone experienced with it could provide guidance.
DD
Senior APM Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 2, 2021
There are some components of the user interface that are not up to date. Just to give you an idea, today we have web applications that are called single-page applications that are much faster than the old style of web application. If we can move faster into the flow of the graphic user interface, and in a more effective way, it will save us a lot of time.