--- description: Review of CubeAPM Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: CubeAPM | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Application Performance Management Tools](/directory/4140/application-performance-management/software) > [CubeAPM](/software/531994/CubeAPM) # CubeAPM Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/531994/CubeAPM Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/531994/CubeAPM?page=2) > CubeAPM is an OpenTelemetry-native observability and application performance monitoring (APM) platform designed for engineering and DevOps teams. It helps organizations monitor applications, infrastructure, logs, and metrics from a single unified dashboard, combining visibility, control, and compliance in one platform. CubeAPM gives teams the flexibility to self-host inside their own cloud or on-premise environment. This approach helps businesses in regulated industries meet SOC 2, ISO 27001 compliance while maintaining complete control over their data. It provides unified observability, allowing users to monitor applications, infrastructure, logs, and metrics from a single, intuitive interface. The platform ensures integration with existing OpenTelemetry agents, SDKs, and pipelines. > > Verdict: Rated **5.0/5** by 17 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **5.0/5** | 17 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Lighthusky Technologies ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Usage Based (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: CubeAPM offers a simple and transparent usage-based pricing model designed for predictable costs and full data control. Teams pay only for the data they ingest — no per-host licenses, no hidden fees, and no surprise overages. Pricing at $0.15 per GB of data ingested with flexible retention options to match every team’s needs. CubeAPM can be deployed as a self-hosted solution within your own cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or on-premises. Our team manages the setup, upgrades, and support combining the control of self-hosting with the ease of SaaS. - **Target Audience**: 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 210 more ## Features - API - Activity Dashboard - Alerts/Notifications - Application Management - Container Monitoring - Customisable Reports - Dashboard Creation - Data Visualisation - Database Monitoring Software - Diagnostic Tools - Email Alerts - Event Logs - Incident Management - Issue Tracking - Monitoring - Performance Metrics - Real-Time Data - Real-Time Reporting - Reporting/Analytics - Resource Management ## Integrations (13 total) - AWS Lambda - Amazon CloudFront - Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon DocumentDB - Amazon EC2 - Django - Google Cloud - Google Cloud AutoML - Google Cloud BigQuery - Google Cloud Run - Jira - PagerDuty - Slack ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Application Performance Management Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4140/application-performance-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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The observability coverage is solid too. We run several microservices - image processing, format conversion, video transcoding and our DAM APIs. Before CubeAPM, keeping tabs on all of them meant switching between tools constantly. Now traces, logs and metrics are in one place, and the coorelation between a latency spike in the processing API and downstream errors becomes obvious pretty quickly. Makes RCA a lot faster. And the migration was smoother than I thought it would be. We were already on OpenTelemetry across most of our services, so we didn't have to rip out existing instrumentation. Just pointed it at CubeAPM. > > **Cons**: Cloud cost visibility is the one thing I'd add. We have meaningful S3 and CDN bandwidth spend, and I still have to go to a separate AWS console for that. When I'm digging into a slow response, I want to see the performance data alongside the cost picture - right now I have to jump between two dashboards for that. Not a blocker but I'm hoping they add something like this at some point. > > We handle a lot of requests - image resizing, format conversions, video processing for customers. A latency spike on any of these hits our customers directly. Before CubeAPM, when something went wrong, the on-call engineer was piecing things together by switching across tools. Now everything is in one dashboard and the investigation is much faster. MTTR has come down noticeably. Cost is the other win. The Datadog bill was getting hard to justify and our finance team was pushing back on it. CubeAPM came in at a fraction of the cost and covers everything we actually need - APM, logs and infra monitoring in one tool. ----- ### "CubeAPM: Real-Time Errors, Powerful Tracing, and Easy Unified Monitoring" — 5.0/5 > **Sumit** | *11 February 2026* | Medical Devices | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: There are a lot of things that we liked about CubeAPM. For instance it shows the errors in real time and the distributed tracing helps us to locate the exact issue. CubeAPM is very easy to use tool and provides a unified platform for monitoring, metrics, logs, and traces that makes our task easier. On top of that it is budget friendly. > > **Cons**: CubeAPM doesn’t have a mobile app based APM which can do frontend monitoring. Browser monitoring is also limited. > > CubeAPM helps us minimize our MTTR through fast, intuitive dashboards and integrations with a lot of alerting tools. With CubeAPM, we get full visibility into all our services, APIs, and infrastructure components. This also results in lower downtime, which in turn means less business impact and reduced reputational loss. ----- ### "Dependable Observability: Reliable tool, Quick support, Predictable Pricing" — 5.0/5 > **Arya** | *9 January 2026* | Religious Institutions | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: CubeAPM makes it easy to gain comprehensive visibility into our applications, infrastructure, and logs. The dashboards load very quickly, which enhances our experience. Additionally, we have noticed a significant decrease in costs compared to the tools we previously used, all while maintaining the same level of depth and reliability. The migration from our old APM software to CubeAPM was hassle free due to multi agent compatibility. > > **Cons**: There is no SaaS model - it is strictly self-hosted. We have no problem with self-hosted but some (non critical) teams prefer SaaS for faster onboarding. > > In my app holy bible, we see really high traffic especially on Sundays when lot of people flock to Churches. We need to get initimated of the spike and any anomalous behavious so that followeers don't see any downtime. This tool has very clean dashboard with integrations with mulitple alerting tools which helps in keeping uptime high. ----- ### "Unified APM with transparent pricing and real human support" — 5.0/5 > **Yash** | *12 April 2026* | E-Learning | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: CubeAPM gives us full-stack observability across traces, metrics, logs and infrastructure - all under one roof. Don't have to juggle separate tools for different purposes. For a lean team like ours building an AI language learning app, having dashboards that actually help you spot latency spikes or error patterns quickly is important. The fact that it runs inside our own cloud is a big plus. Our users' voice recordings and learning data stays in our own infrastructure. And since CubeAPM is natively compatible with OpenTelemetry, we didn't have to remove or redo our existing instrumentation when we migrated. That saved us a lot of time. Support has been excellent. Previously we had to raise a ticket and wait. With CubeAPM the response is in minutes on a shared Slack channel with their engineering team. > > **Cons**: For dashboarding I want to have more visualization options. Basic ones are there but advanced ones like pie charts and histograms are not available yet. Not a blocker for us but would be good to have. > > When something breaks, I can drill into the specific service fast - alert fires, on-call team already knows where to look. With over a million learners on the platform, even brief downtime hits daily active numbers in a way that's hard to ignore. Pricing is the other big thing. I don't have to fight finance every quarter. The bill stays flat even as we add services, which honestly makes my life a lot easier. ----- ### "Solid APM with fast response times and honest pricing" — 5.0/5 > **Hitesh** | *10 April 2026* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: We run a lot of microservices. Image processing, AI inference, image delivery and API serving all sit in different parts of the stack, and keeping track of everything was getting messy. CubeAPM brought traces, logs and infrastructure into one place, and the correlation between them is what actually helps when something breaks in the pipeline. Support has also been genuinely strong. We have a shared Slack with their team and the response time is fast, not the usual open-a-ticket-and-wait experience. The migration was smoother than expected too. We were already on OpenTelemetry, so most of our instrumentation carried over without much rework. > > **Cons**: GPU monitoring is still the main gap for us. We run inference workloads on GPU machines and I cannot view GPU utilization inside CubeAPM yet, so we still need to check that elsewhere. Hoping they add this over time. > > Less time jumping between tools when something goes wrong. That is the biggest benefit for us. When our image processing APIs start throwing errors or latency spikes, the on-call team can trace the issue back to the cause much faster now. Cost is also much lower than what we were paying with New Relic. Flat pricing works well for us because as we keep adding services, the bill stays predictable. 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