Blackfire.io vs Stackify: 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, ...); Stackify: Performance. Metrics. Errors. Logs. One platform. Stackify offers the only developers-friendly innovative cloud based solution that fully integrates application performance management (APM) with error and log. Allowing them to easily monitor, detect and resolve application issues faster.

Blackfire.io and Stackify can be categorized 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, Stackify provides the following key features:

• Application Performance Management (APM), Custom metrics, Log management. Application monitoring
• Server Monitoring
• DB & queries monitoring

"Deep insights into PHP request cycle" is the top reason why over 4 developers like Blackfire.io, while over 7 developers mention "Error tracking" as the leading cause for choosing Stackify.