Apica + ilert: Closing the gap between detection and resolution
ilert now offers a native integration with Apica that connects telemetry events to ilert’s alerting, on-call, and incident communication. It helps SRE, DevOps, and IT operations teams turn detection into action faster, reduce alert noise with the aid of AI, and keep stakeholders informed without unnecessary notifications.
Highway to faster development
Mistakes are inevitable if you want to move fast and expand your product. But they shouldn't slow you down. Apica and ilert provide tools to make product changes less stressful and IT incidents manageable. Two solutions prepare you for unpredictable events and help you meet unexpectedness with helpful tools at hand.
The fastest way to reduce time from detection to resolution is to shorten the path from signal to the right human with the right context. Apica detects performance and availability issues across websites, apps, APIs, and more; ilert turns those signals into alerts tied to escalation policies and teams, so responders see ownership and next steps immediately. That means fewer handoffs, quicker acknowledgment, and fewer minutes lost before mitigation starts.
Add ilert AI on top to group similar events by content similarity and deduplicate replications, and your on-call stays focused on the primary incident rather than clearing look-alikes. When a failing Apica check returns to OK, ilert automatically resolves the linked Alert, preventing stale notifications from lingering.
Apica capabilities and strengths
Apica Ascent offers a modular approach to telemetry data management. It includes four four products: Fleet for agent management, Flow for telemetry pipelines, Lake for storage, and Observe for analytics.
- Fleet deploys and manages OpenTelemetry and Fluent Bit collectors at scale, making it straightforward to start streaming logs and metrics.
- Flow gives “never block, never drop” pipeline control with InstaStore-backed infinite buffering, real-time transform/enrich/route, elastic Kubernetes-native scaling, and 200+ integrations with existing stacks like Datadog, Elastic, Kafka, and S3.
- Lake is a single-tier, object-storage data lake with patented InstaStore for indexed, on-demand access and long-term retention.
- Observe correlates logs, metrics, traces, events, and web performance in one view and adds automatic anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, dashboards, alerting, and reporting.
Apica can reduce observability spend by up to 40% by decoupling compute from storage, supporting any object store, and letting teams choose what to index and when. The platform is ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified and supports SaaS, hybrid, and on-prem deployments.
Integration features
Here are the capabilities of the native Apica and ilert integration that users will benefit from:
- Native triggering: Apica issues/outages create alerts in ilert via a dedicated Apica alert source; setup is point-and-click on both sides.
- Auto-resolve: When an Apica alert returns to OK, the linked ilert alert is resolved automatically.
- On-call routing and escalations: Choose an escalation policy during setup so Apica-originated alerts page the right on-call and follow your escalation rules.
- Noise reduction with intelligent grouping: enable alert grouping and filtering with the help of ilert AI to collapse near-duplicates and concentrate only on what matters.
- Event flows for enrichment and control: use visual ilert Event flows to branch on conditions (e.g., severity/support hours), route, or suppress Apica events before they page.
How to use the integration
To start using Apica and ilert, you need to have accounts. Here are the registration links. Both solutions offer Free trials and plans:
To start sending Apica events to ilert, navigate to the Alert sources menu at ilert and choose the Apica tile. The connection is straightforward and takes no more than five minutes. Find the step-by-step guide in the ilert Documentation.
We are happy to help
If you have any remaining questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to ilert or Apica's team.
