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AppSignal vs Librato: What are the differences?
What is 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..
What is Librato? Real-Time Cloud Monitoring. 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.
AppSignal and Librato can be primarily classified 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, Librato provides the following key features:
- REST API accepts any metrics you define
- Turnkey integration with AWS, Heroku, collectd, and more
- Integrates with more than 100 open-source agents, and language bindings
"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 5 developers like AppSignal, while over 13 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Librato.
Heroku, Product Hunt, and Mapbox are some of the popular companies that use Librato, whereas AppSignal is used by Publitas, Tolq, and inkl. Librato has a broader approval, being mentioned in 61 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to AppSignal, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 5 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 Librato
- Easy setup14
- Great visualization8
- Heroku integration4
- Free tier3
- Alerting2
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