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AppSignal vs Vector: 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, Vector is detailed as "On-host performance monitoring framework which exposes hand picked high resolution metrics to every engineer’s browser, by Netflix". Vector provides a simple way for users to visualize and analyze system and application-level metrics in near real-time. It leverages the battle tested open source system monitoring framework, Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), layering on top a flexible and user-friendly UI. The UI polls metrics at up to 1 second resolution, rendering the data in completely configurable dashboards that simplify cross-metric correlation and analysis.
AppSignal and Vector can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Vector is an open source tool with 3.17K GitHub stars and 230 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vector'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 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
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