Blackfire.io vs JENNIFER: What are the differences?

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, ...); JENNIFER: Real-time performance data visualization solution. It is a Real-time performance data visualization solution. It catches abnormal application transaction event like the transactions of bad response time, transaction error/ exception and Bad SQL statement, etc and alerts in real-time.

Blackfire.io and JENNIFER can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Blackfire.io are:

• 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

On the other hand, JENNIFER provides the following key features:

• Real-time Transaction Monitoring
• Real-time Event Alerts
• Real-time Data Analytics