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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 11, 2026

Snyk and Apache SkyWalking are both in the software security and monitoring category. Snyk appears to have an edge in pricing and support, while Apache SkyWalking is strong in features due to its comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

Features: Snyk offers seamless integration with development tools, continuous security monitoring, and automated remediation guidance. Apache SkyWalking provides robust tracing, performance monitoring, and logging capabilities with an analytics dashboard for detailed insights.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Snyk allows straightforward integration with development environments focusing on security fixes. Apache SkyWalking requires more complex deployment due to its distributed tracing and monitoring features, though it provides extensive documentation to aid in this process.

Pricing and ROI: Snyk has a competitive pricing model with clear tiers, offering substantial ROI for development teams focused on security. Apache SkyWalking, being open-source, can be cost-effective but may involve extra costs for complete implementation and support. Snyk delivers better initial value through pricing and rapid implementation, while Apache SkyWalking’s ROI comes from its detailed monitoring capabilities, making it potentially worth a higher investment for larger enterprises.

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Apache SkyWalking vs. Snyk

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Categories and Ranking

Apache SkyWalking

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

21st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

4.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Snyk

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

18th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (9th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (6th), Container Security (9th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (14th), DevSecOps (4th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (1st), AI Security (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Apache SkyWalking is 0.7%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Snyk is 1.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Snyk	1.3%
Apache SkyWalking	0.7%
Other	98.0%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

reviewer2784462

Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Tracing has revealed hybrid bottlenecks and delivers full visibility into critical payment flows

Apache SkyWalking provided full visibility into the black hole because before using it, we could not see what was happening when a request left Amazon EKS and went to our on-premises legacy databases. Apache SkyWalking's distributed tracing correlates these two worlds in a single view, showing us that 40% of the latency was actually happening in the network hop between the cloud and the physical data center, not in the code itself. Second, it exposes hidden architectural flaws. By using the automatic dependency mapping, we discovered that some microservices were stuck in a cyclic dependency which was documented nowhere. This visual evidence allowed us to refactor the logic and immediately increased our throughput by 30%. Apache SkyWalking gave us database-level insight without database access. Through its slow query monitoring, the Java agents captured the exact SQL statements that were hanging during peak sales hours. This meant our developers could fix the exact line of code or index without needing to wait for a DBA to pull logs, reducing our mean time to resolution. There are many features that are useful to mention in this case because we obtained different benefits. Apache SkyWalking automatically drew the topology of the 600 pods where we discovered cyclic dependencies between services that no one had documented before and that were slowing down the system. Another valuable feature is resolving hybrid bottlenecks because we isolated a specific network issue between AWS and the physical data center. Without distributed tracing, infrastructure teams blame Java code and vice versa. Database tuning is also important because thanks to slow query metrics captured by the agent, we identified and rewrote the SQL queries that most impacted performance during sales peaks.

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Abhishek-Goyal

Software Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Improves security posture by actively reducing critical vulnerabilities and guiding remediation

Snyk's main features include open-source vulnerability scanning, code security, container security, infrastructure as code security, risk-based prioritization, development-first integration, continuous monitoring and alerting, automation, and remediation. The best features I appreciate are the vulnerability checking, vulnerability scanning, and code security capabilities, as Snyk scans all open-source dependencies for known vulnerabilities and helps with license compliance for open-source components. Snyk integrates into IDEs, allowing issues to be caught as they appear in the code dynamically and prioritizes risk while providing remediation advice. Snyk provides actionable remediation advice on where vulnerabilities can exist and where code security is compromised, automatically scanning everything and providing timely alerts. Snyk has positively impacted my organization by improving the security posture across all software repositories, resulting in fewer critical vulnerabilities, more confidence in overall product security, and faster security compliance for project clients. Snyk has helped reduce vulnerabilities significantly. Initially, the repository had 17 to 31 critical and high vulnerabilities, but Snyk has helped manage them down to just five vulnerabilities, which are now lower and not high or critical.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Apache SkyWalking has impacted my organization positively."

"Apache SkyWalking has improved our ability to troubleshoot distributed applications and resolve integration issues more quickly, giving QA, developers, and operations better visibility into service interactions, reducing the time spent identifying root causes, and improving collaboration by allowing us to share traces and monitoring data as concrete evidence when investigating defects."

"Apache SkyWalking has enabled me to save considerable money because I can monitor multiple applications simultaneously in the same environment without deploying multiple solutions, while optimizing application performance and boosting system health through increased visibility."

"Apache SkyWalking has significantly improved application visibility and reduced troubleshooting times while enhancing security reliability."

"Apache SkyWalking has positively impacted my organization by reducing the time of the team so that they can put in more efforts into their other tasks, saving a lot of time, improving our SLA in resolving any issue, providing good RCA analysis to the leadership team, and helping us in monitoring the entire health in a shorter time span."

"Using Apache SkyWalking has had a positive impact on my organization because it has enabled us to identify the causes of various problems more quickly."

"Apache SkyWalking is a very nice tool and an exceptional tool for managing volume and complex architecture on AWS without the prohibitive cost of commercial suites."

"Overall, Apache SkyWalking gives us greater visibility into our distributed applications and makes it easier for the development and DevOps team to identify and resolve production issues."

"Our overall security has improved, we are running fewer severities and vulnerabilities in our packages, and we fixed a lot of the vulnerabilities that we didn't know were there."

"It's very easy for developers to use. Onboarding was an easy process for all of the developers within the company. After a quick, half-an-hour to an hour session, they were fully using it on their own. It's very straightforward. Usability is definitely a 10 out of 10."

"Snyk provides a lot of information on vulnerabilities, the packages being used, and their dependencies, giving good insight into the security of those packages."

"The most valuable features include enriched information around the vulnerabilities for better triaging, in terms of the vulnerability layer origin and vulnerability tree."

"Snyk is a good tool that provides equivalent security standards compared to other expensive tools."

"There are many valuable features, for example the way the scanning feature works and the integration is cool because I can integrate it and I don't need to wait until the CACD, I can plug it in to our local ID and there I can do the scanning, that is the part I like best."

"We're loving some of the Kubernetes integration as well. That's really quite cool. It's still in the early days of our use of it, but it looks really exciting. In the Kubernetes world, it's very good at reporting on the areas around the configuration of your platform, rather than the things that you've pulled in. There's some good advice there that allows you to prioritize whether something is important or just worrying. That's very helpful."

"Our customers find container scans most valuable. They are always talking about it."

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Cons

"Apache SkyWalking can be improved by enhancing a few things. The learning curve is definitely there, so it needs a good learning curve."

"Apache SkyWalking can be improved with storage management complexity because with this volume of 50 million traces a day, managing data retention on OpenSearch is critical."

"Areas for improvement include simplified initial deployment and configurations, better documentation for advanced use cases, and more built-in dashboards and reports."

"Right now, I don't think it is stable."

"Apache SkyWalking can be improved by responding more quickly to new versions of monitored products."

"Apache SkyWalking can be improved by making the dashboards easier to customize, improving alerting options, and adding more detailed troubleshooting information."

"For AI and compliance, I would rate it a two, but for operation monitoring and security, I would rate it a five."

"Apache SkyWalking could be improved by making the initial setup and configuration more straightforward, especially for teams that are new to observability."

"Snyk is a premium-priced product, so it's kind of expensive. The big con that I find frustrating is when a company charges extra for single sign-on (SSO) into their SaaS app."

"Snyk could improve by reducing the alert noise because in large projects, security tools can surface a lot of findings."

"Right now, we receive too many high vulnerabilities. If we enable notifications, then we just get a lot of spam message."

"A feature we would like to see is the ability to archive and store historical data, without actually deleting it. It's a problem because it throws my numbers off. When I'm looking at the dashboard's current vulnerabilities, it's not accurate."

"The log export function could be easier when shipping logs to other platforms such as Splunk."

"Scalability has some issues because we have a lot of code and its use is mandatory."

"It would be helpful if we get a recommendation while doing the scan about the necessary things we need to implement after identifying the vulnerabilities."

"We have seen cases where tools didn't find or recognize certain dependencies. These are known issues, to some extent, due to the complexity in the language or stack that you using. There are some certain circumstances where the tool isn't actually finding what it's supposed to be finding, then it could be misleading."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Presently, my company uses an open-source version of the solution. The solution's pricing can be considered quite reasonable owing to the features they offer."

"The product has good pricing."

"Snyk is a premium-priced product, so it's kind of expensive. The big con that I find frustrating is when a company charges extra for single sign-on (SSO) into their SaaS app. Snyk is one of the few that I'm willing to pay that add-on charge, but generally I disqualify products that charge an extra fee to do integrated authentication to our identity provider, like Okta or some other SSO. That is a big negative. We had to pay extra for that. That little annoyance aside, it is expensive. You get a lot out of it, but you're paying for that premium."

"The price of the solution is expensive compared to other solutions."

"Their licensing model is fairly robust and scalable for our needs. I believe we have reached a reasonable agreement on the licensing to enable hundreds of developers to participate in this product offering. The solution is very tailored towards developers and its licensing model works well for us."

"It's inexpensive and easy to license. It comes in standard package sizing, which is straightforward. This information is publicly found on their website."

"It's good value. That's the primary thing. It's not cheap-cheap, but it's good value."

"The solution is less expensive than Black Duck."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	24

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache SkyWalking?

It is fine regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing.

What needs improvement with Apache SkyWalking?

Apache SkyWalking can be improved by making the dashboards easier to customize, improving alerting options, and adding more detailed troubleshooting information. Better integration with other monit...

What is your primary use case for Apache SkyWalking?

My main use case of Apache SkyWalking is for application performance monitoring. I have been using Apache SkyWalking for application performance monitoring, service monitoring, and distributing tra...

How does Snyk compare with SonarQube?

Snyk does a great job identifying and reducing vulnerabilities. This solution is fully automated and monitors 24/7 to find any issues reported on the internet. It will store dependencies that you a...

What needs improvement with Snyk?

There are a lot of false positives that need to be identified and separated. The inclusion of AI to remove false positives would be beneficial. So far, I've not seen any AI features to enhance vuln...

What is your primary use case for Snyk?

I use Snyk ( /products/snyk-reviews ) in the DevOps pipeline to identify vulnerabilities before deploying the application. It integrates with Jenkins ( /products/jenkins-reviews ).

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Overview

Apache SkyWalking is a versatile open-source tool used for monitoring and analyzing the performance and behavior of applications in distributed systems. It enables tracking requests, identifying bottlenecks, and troubleshooting issues in real-time, while also monitoring microservices, logs, and server metrics.

With its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, flexible architecture, and powerful visualization tools, Apache SkyWalking provides actionable insights and enhances overall application performance.

Its user-friendly interface and intuitive dashboards make it easy to understand and analyze complex data sets.

Apache

Snyk excels in integrating security within the development lifecycle, providing teams with an AI Trust Platform that combines speed with security efficiency, ensuring robust AI application development.

Snyk empowers developers with AI-ready engines offering broad coverage, accuracy, and speed essential for modern development. With AI-powered visibility and security, Snyk allows proactive threat prevention and swift threat remediation. The platform supports shifts toward LLM engineering and AI code analysis, enhancing security and development productivity. Snyk collaborates with GenAI coding assistants for improved productivity and AI application threat management. Platform extensibility supports evolving standards with API access and native integrations, ensuring comprehensive and seamless security embedding in development tools.

What are Snyk's standout features?

Simplicity and Integration: Easy to integrate across platforms like GitLab, GitHub, and Jira.
Comprehensive Vulnerability Database: Offers accurate reporting for effective vulnerability management.
Developer-Friendly Design: Supports multiple programming languages, appealing to developers.
Automation and Flexibility: Enhances workflow efficiency with automated capabilities.

What benefits can users expect?

Efficiency in Vulnerability Detection: Streamlines prioritization and remediation processes.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers a competitive pricing model compared to alternatives.
Enhanced Workflow: Integration with DevOps tools improves development processes.

Industries leverage Snyk for security in CI/CD pipelines by automating checks for dependency vulnerabilities and managing open-source licenses. Its Docker and Kubernetes scanning capabilities enhance container security, supporting a proactive security approach. Integrations with platforms like GitHub and Azure DevOps optimize implementation across diverse software environments.

Sample Customers

1. Alibaba 2. Amazon 3. Apple 4. Baidu 5. ByteDance 6. Cisco 7. Dell 8. Google 9. Huawei 10. IBM 11. Intel 12. JPMorgan Chase 13. Klarna 14. LinkedIn 15. Microsoft 16. Netflix 17. Oracle 18. PayPal 19. Pinterest 20. Qualcomm 21. SAP 22. Samsung 23. Spotify 24. Tencent 25. Twitter 26. Uber 27. VMware 28. WeChat 29. Xiaomi 30. Zoom

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