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AppSignal vs Kadira: What are the differences?
Developers describe AppSignal as "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.. On the other hand, Kadira is detailed as "Performance Monitoring for Meteor". See what’s going on with your app with different performance metrics and traces. Kadira tracks all your client and server errors automatically. You can profile your app in production or locally with Kadira and analyze it using an easy-to-use CPU analyzer.
AppSignal and Kadira 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, Kadira provides the following key features:
- Performance Metrics and Traces
- Error Tracking
- CPU Profiling
"Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers consider AppSignal over the competitors, whereas "Best performance monitoring tool for the best framewor" was stated as the key factor in picking Kadira.
Kadira is an open source tool with 214 GitHub stars and 88 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kadira's open source repository on GitHub.
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 setup16
- Logs Errors9
- Tracks performance8
- Elixir support out of the box7
- Support Elixir7
- Profiles Ruby Memory Usage7
- Great UI6
- In App Customer support via chat5
- Custom metrics5
- Affordable, holistic, All-in-One solution for Rails5
- Anomaly detection5
- Cheapest option4
- GIT Integration4
Pros of Kadira
- Best performance monitoring tool for the best framewor9
- Drop in integration4
- Just Look2