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Alternatives to Librato

Datadog, New Relic, Hosted Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Librato.
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What is Librato and what are its top alternatives?

Librato provides a complete solution for monitoring and understanding the metrics that impact your business at all levels of the stack. We provide everything you need to visualize, analyze, and actively alert on the metrics that matter to you.
Librato is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Librato

  • Datadog
    Datadog

    Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog! ...

  • New Relic
    New Relic

    The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too. ...

  • Hosted Graphite
    Hosted Graphite

    Hosted Graphite is the powerful open-source application metrics system used by hundreds of companies. We take away the headaches of scaling, maintenance, and upgrades and let you do what you do best - write great software. ...

  • Grafana
    Grafana

    Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins. ...

  • Prometheus
    Prometheus

    Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true. ...

  • Azure Application Insights
    Azure Application Insights

    It is an extensible Application Performance Management service for developers and DevOps professionals. Use it to monitor your live applications. It will automatically detect performance anomalies, and includes powerful analytics tools. ...

  • Dynatrace
    Dynatrace

    It is an AI-powered, full stack, automated performance management solution. It provides user experience analysis that identifies and resolves application performance issues faster than ever before. ...

  • AppDynamics
    AppDynamics

    AppDynamics develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem resolution for highly distributed applications through transaction flow monitoring and deep diagnostics. ...

Librato alternatives & related posts

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Datadog

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Unify logs, metrics, and traces from across your distributed infrastructure.
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PROS OF DATADOG
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    Monitoring for many apps (databases, web servers, etc)
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    Easy setup
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    Powerful ui
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    Powerful integrations
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    Great value
  • 53
    Great visualization
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    Events + metrics = clarity
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    Custom metrics
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    Notifications
  • 38
    Flexibility
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    Free & paid plans
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    Great customer support
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    Makes my life easier
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    Adapts automatically as i scale up
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    Easy setup and plugins
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    Super easy and powerful
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    AWS support
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    In-context collaboration
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    Rich in features
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    Docker support
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    Cost
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    Automation tools
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    Source control and bug tracking
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    Simple, powerful, great for infra
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    Cute logo
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    Expensive
  • 3
    Easy to Analyze
  • 3
    Full visibility of applications
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    Monitor almost everything
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    Best than others
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    Good for Startups
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    Free setup
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    Best in the field
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    APM
CONS OF DATADOG
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    Expensive
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    No errors exception tracking
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    External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging
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    Complicated

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Robert Zuber

Our primary source of monitoring and alerting is Datadog. We’ve got prebuilt dashboards for every scenario and integration with PagerDuty to manage routing any alerts. We’ve definitely scaled past the point where managing dashboards is easy, but we haven’t had time to invest in using features like Anomaly Detection. We’ve started using Honeycomb for some targeted debugging of complex production issues and we are liking what we’ve seen. We capture any unhandled exceptions with Rollbar and, if we realize one will keep happening, we quickly convert the metrics to point back to Datadog, to keep Rollbar as clean as possible.

We use Segment to consolidate all of our trackers, the most important of which goes to Amplitude to analyze user patterns. However, if we need a more consolidated view, we push all of our data to our own data warehouse running PostgreSQL; this is available for analytics and dashboard creation through Looker.

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We are looking for a centralised monitoring solution for our application deployed on Amazon EKS. We would like to monitor using metrics from Kubernetes, AWS services (NeptuneDB, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, etc) and application microservice's custom metrics.

We are expected to use around 80 microservices (not replicas). I think a total of 200-250 microservices will be there in the system with 10-12 slave nodes.

We tried Prometheus but it looks like maintenance is a big issue. We need to manage scaling, maintaining the storage, and dealing with multiple exporters and Grafana. I felt this itself needs few dedicated resources (at least 2-3 people) to manage. Not sure if I am thinking in the correct direction. Please confirm.

You mentioned Datadog and Sysdig charges per host. Does it charge per slave node?

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New Relic

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New Relic is the industry’s largest and most comprehensive cloud-based observability platform.
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PROS OF NEW RELIC
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    Easy setup
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    Really powerful
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    Awesome visualization
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    Ease of use
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    Great ui
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    Free tier
  • 80
    Great tool for insights
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    Heroku Integration
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    Market leader
  • 49
    Peace of mind
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    Push notifications
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    Email notifications
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    Heroku Add-on
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    Error Detection and Alerting
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    Multiple language support
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    SQL Analysis
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    Server Resources Monitoring
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    Transaction Tracing
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    Apdex Scores
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    Azure Add-on
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    Analysis of CPU, Disk, Memory, and Network
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    Performance of External Services
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    Error Analysis
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    Detailed reports
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    Application Response Times
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    Application Availability Monitoring and Alerting
  • 5
    JVM Performance Analyzer (Java)
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    Most Time Consuming Transactions
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    Easy to use
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    Browser Transaction Tracing
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    Top Database Operations
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    Pagoda Box integration
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    Custom Dashboards
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    Weekly Performance Email
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    Application Map
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    Background Jobs Transaction Analysis
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    App Speed Index
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    Easy visibility
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    Easy to setup
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    Free
  • 1
    Rails integration
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    Super Expensive
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    Metric Data Resolution
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    Metric Data Retention
  • 1
    Team Collaboration Tools
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    Best of the best, what more can you ask for
  • 1
    Best monitoring on the market
  • 1
    Real User Monitoring Overview
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    Real User Monitoring Analysis and Breakdown
  • 1
    Time Comparisons
  • 1
    Access to Performance Data API
  • 1
    Worst Transactions by User Dissatisfaction
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    Incident Detection and Alerting
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    Exceptions
CONS OF NEW RELIC
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    Pricing model doesn't suit microservices
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    UI isn't great
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    Expensive
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    Visualizations aren't very helpful
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    Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

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Farzeem Diamond Jiwani
Software Engineer at IVP · | 7 upvotes · 1M views

Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.

Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS

Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure

Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server

Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.

Please advise on the above. Thanks!

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Sebastian Gębski

Regarding Continuous Integration - we've started with something very easy to set up - CircleCI , but with time we're adding more & more complex pipelines - we use Jenkins to configure & run those. It's much more effort, but at some point we had to pay for the flexibility we expected. Our source code version control is Git (which probably doesn't require a rationale these days) and we keep repos in GitHub - since the very beginning & we never considered moving out. Our primary monitoring these days is in New Relic (Ruby & SPA apps) and AppSignal (Elixir apps) - we're considering unifying it in New Relic , but this will require some improvements in Elixir app observability. For error reporting we use Sentry (a very popular choice in this class) & we collect our distributed logs using Logentries (to avoid semi-manual handling here).

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Hosted Graphite

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Graphite as a service
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PROS OF HOSTED GRAPHITE
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    Great customer support
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    Custom metrics
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    Grafana dashboards
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    Event annotations
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    Alerting with lots of notification options
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    Great value
  • 1
    Lots of Integrations
CONS OF HOSTED GRAPHITE
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    Grafana

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    PROS OF GRAFANA
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      Beautiful
    • 68
      Graphs are interactive
    • 57
      Free
    • 56
      Easy
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      Nicer than the Graphite web interface
    • 25
      Many integrations
    • 18
      Can build dashboards
    • 10
      Can collaborate on dashboards
    • 10
      Easy to specify time window
    • 9
      Dashboards contain number tiles
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      Click and drag to zoom in
    • 5
      Integration with InfluxDB
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      Open Source
    • 4
      Authentification and users management
    • 4
      Threshold limits in graphs
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      Simple and native support to Prometheus
    • 3
      It is open to cloud watch and many database
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      Alerts
    • 2
      You can visualize real time data to put alerts
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      You can use this for development to check memcache
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      Great community support
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      Plugin visualizationa
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      Grapsh as code
    CONS OF GRAFANA
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      No interactive query builder

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    Conor Myhrvold
    Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 15 upvotes · 3.4M views

    Why we spent several years building an open source, large-scale metrics alerting system, M3, built for Prometheus:

    By late 2014, all services, infrastructure, and servers at Uber emitted metrics to a Graphite stack that stored them using the Whisper file format in a sharded Carbon cluster. We used Grafana for dashboarding and Nagios for alerting, issuing Graphite threshold checks via source-controlled scripts. While this worked for a while, expanding the Carbon cluster required a manual resharding process and, due to lack of replication, any single node’s disk failure caused permanent loss of its associated metrics. In short, this solution was not able to meet our needs as the company continued to grow.

    To ensure the scalability of Uber’s metrics backend, we decided to build out a system that provided fault tolerant metrics ingestion, storage, and querying as a managed platform...

    https://eng.uber.com/m3/

    (GitHub : https://github.com/m3db/m3)

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    Matt Menzenski
    Senior Software Engineering Manager at PayIt · | 15 upvotes · 379.6K views

    Grafana and Prometheus together, running on Kubernetes , is a powerful combination. These tools are cloud-native and offer a large community and easy integrations. At PayIt we're using exporting Java application metrics using a Dropwizard metrics exporter, and our Node.js services now use the prom-client npm library to serve metrics.

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    Prometheus

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    An open-source service monitoring system and time series database, developed by SoundCloud
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    PROS OF PROMETHEUS
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      Powerful easy to use monitoring
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      Flexible query language
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      Dimensional data model
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      Alerts
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      Active and responsive community
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      Extensive integrations
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      Easy to setup
    • 12
      Beautiful Model and Query language
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      Easy to extend
    • 6
      Nice
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      Written in Go
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      Good for experimentation
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      Easy for monitoring
    CONS OF PROMETHEUS
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      Just for metrics
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      Bad UI
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      Needs monitoring to access metrics endpoints
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      Not easy to configure and use
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      Supports only active agents
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      Written in Go
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      TLS is quite difficult to understand
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      Requires multiple applications and tools
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      Single point of failure

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    Conor Myhrvold
    Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 15 upvotes · 3.4M views

    Why we spent several years building an open source, large-scale metrics alerting system, M3, built for Prometheus:

    By late 2014, all services, infrastructure, and servers at Uber emitted metrics to a Graphite stack that stored them using the Whisper file format in a sharded Carbon cluster. We used Grafana for dashboarding and Nagios for alerting, issuing Graphite threshold checks via source-controlled scripts. While this worked for a while, expanding the Carbon cluster required a manual resharding process and, due to lack of replication, any single node’s disk failure caused permanent loss of its associated metrics. In short, this solution was not able to meet our needs as the company continued to grow.

    To ensure the scalability of Uber’s metrics backend, we decided to build out a system that provided fault tolerant metrics ingestion, storage, and querying as a managed platform...

    https://eng.uber.com/m3/

    (GitHub : https://github.com/m3db/m3)

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    Matt Menzenski
    Senior Software Engineering Manager at PayIt · | 15 upvotes · 379.6K views

    Grafana and Prometheus together, running on Kubernetes , is a powerful combination. These tools are cloud-native and offer a large community and easy integrations. At PayIt we're using exporting Java application metrics using a Dropwizard metrics exporter, and our Node.js services now use the prom-client npm library to serve metrics.

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    Azure Application Insights logo

    Azure Application Insights

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    It is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers
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    PROS OF AZURE APPLICATION INSIGHTS
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      Focus in detect performance anomalies and issues
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      Integrated with Azure
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      Live Metrics
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      User flow
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      Availability tests (Heart Beat check)
    CONS OF AZURE APPLICATION INSIGHTS
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      Difficult to surface information
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      Custom instrumentation via code only
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      UI is clunky and gets in the way

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    Dynatrace

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    Monitor, optimize, and scale every app, in any cloud
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    PROS OF DYNATRACE
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      Real User Monitoring
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      Automated RCA
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      Extensible via SDK
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      Out-of-the-box distributed transaction tracing
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      Built on massive industry expertise (since 2005)
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      Applications & Microservices
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      AI-powered platform
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      Application Security
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      Built on API-first design principles
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      Automatic instrumentathird generation full stack Agents
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      Analytics vMotion events detection Discovery Performanc
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      Automation
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      Easy setup
    • 1
      Accelerate software delivery
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      Business Analytics
    • 1
      Digital Experience
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      Infrastructure Monitoring
    CONS OF DYNATRACE
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      Application Security
    • 0
      Real User Monitoring
    • 0
      Infrastructure Monitoring
    • 0
      Applications & Microservices
    • 0
      AI-powered platform

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    Farzeem Diamond Jiwani
    Software Engineer at IVP · | 7 upvotes · 1M views

    Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.

    Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS

    Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure

    Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server

    Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.

    Please advise on the above. Thanks!

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    Hi Folks,

    I am trying to evaluate Site24x7 against AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and New Relic. Has anyone used Site24X7? If so, what are your opinions on the tool? I know that the license costs are very low compared to other tools in the market. Other than that, are there any major issues anyone has encountered using the tool itself?

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    AppDynamics logo

    AppDynamics

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    Application management for the cloud generation
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    PROS OF APPDYNAMICS
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      Deep code visibility
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      Powerful
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      Real-Time Visibility
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      Great visualization
    • 6
      Comprehensive Coverage of Programming Languages
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      Easy Setup
    • 4
      Deep DB Troubleshooting
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      Excellent Customer Support
    CONS OF APPDYNAMICS
    • 5
      Expensive
    • 2
      Poor to non-existent integration with aws services

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    Farzeem Diamond Jiwani
    Software Engineer at IVP · | 7 upvotes · 1M views

    Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.

    Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS

    Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure

    Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server

    Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.

    Please advise on the above. Thanks!

    See more

    Hi Folks,

    I am trying to evaluate Site24x7 against AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and New Relic. Has anyone used Site24X7? If so, what are your opinions on the tool? I know that the license costs are very low compared to other tools in the market. Other than that, are there any major issues anyone has encountered using the tool itself?

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