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AppSignal vs Blackfire.io: What are the differences?
AppSignal: Monitoring for Ruby and Elixir. By developers, for developers. AppSignal gives you and your team alerts and detailed metrics about your Ruby or Elixir application Sensible pricing, no aggressive sales & support by developers.; Blackfire.io: Blackfire Profiler automatically instruments your code to gather data about consumed server resources like memory, CPU time, and I/O. Blackfire achieves a new level of accuracy by aggregating several profile samples and getting rid of non relevant data. Get even deeper and review the interactions with your entire stack (SQL database engines, cache servers, ...).
AppSignal and Blackfire.io can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by AppSignal are:
- Track errors
- Performance Monitoring
- Compare deploys. Monitor background jobs.
On the other hand, Blackfire.io provides the following key features:
- Profile a page at a mouse click thanks to the Blackfire web browser extension
- Browse through the function calls and identify performance bottlenecks thanks to the Blackfire intuitive UI
- Because Blackfire is only triggered when you profile a request, there is no overhead for other requests
"Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers consider AppSignal over the competitors, whereas "Deep insights into PHP request cycle" was stated as the key factor in picking Blackfire.io.
Publitas, Tolq, and inkl are some of the popular companies that use AppSignal, whereas Blackfire.io is used by Blackfire.io, Showpad, and Basharsoft. AppSignal has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Blackfire.io, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Coming from a Ruby background, we've been users of New Relic for quite some time. When we adopted Elixir, the New Relic integration was young and missing essential features, so we gave AppSignal a try. It worked for quite some time, we even implemented a :telemetry reporter for AppSignal . But it was difficult to correlate data in two monitoring solutions, New Relic was undergoing a UI overhaul which made it difficult to use, and AppSignal was missing the flexibility we needed. We had some fans of Datadog, so we gave it a try and it worked out perfectly. Datadog works great with Ruby , Elixir , JavaScript , and has powerful features our engineers love to use (notebooks, dashboards, very flexible alerting). Cherry on top - thanks to the Datadog Terraform provider everything is written as code, allowing us to collaborate on our Datadog setup.
Pros of AppSignal
- Easy setup15
- Logs Errors8
- Tracks performance7
- Elixir support out of the box7
- Support Elixir7
- Profiles Ruby Memory Usage6
- In App Customer support via chat5
- Great UI5
- Affordable, holistic, All-in-One solution for Rails4
- Custom metrics4
- GIT Integration4
- Cheapest option4
- Anomaly detection4
Pros of Blackfire.io
- Deep insights into PHP request cycle7
- Performance profiling5
- Intuitive UI2
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