Apex vs. Apex Lite

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Apex vs. Apex Lite

Apex is a full-featured reporting engine for combining information from many assets while Apex Lite has limited functionality and can only be used for reports of the local asset.

Table 1. Apex vs. Apex Lite
Feature	Apex Enterprise	Apex Workgroup	Apex Lite
System and user dashboards	X	X	X
Import dashboards	X	X	X
Filtering	X	X	X
Event logging / notifications	X	X	X
Tables	X	X	X
Graphs	X	X	X
Charts	X	X	X
Observer GigaStor trace extraction	X	X	X¹
Threshold graphs	X	X
Site dashboards	X	X
Multiple data sources	X	X
Business groups	X	X
Status widgets	X	X
Application dependency maps (ADM)	X	X
Failover / Redundancy	X	X
Multiple user configuration	X	X
Thresholds	X	X
Alarms	X	X
Scheduled reports	X	X
Probe instance limitations	Unlimited number of any probe instances acting as data sources	Limited to any 10 probe instances acting as data sources	Limited to local probe instances / no remote probes
Works with	Observer (Expert and Suite) GigaStor	Observer (Expert and Suite) GigaStor	Observer (Expert and Suite) GigaStor
User experience score	X	X
GigaFlow Integration	X	X

¹ Apex Lite can perform a GigaStor trace extraction against its local system only.