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Blackfire.io vs VividCortex: What are the differences?
What is 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, ...).
What is VividCortex? The best way to monitor your production databases. VividCortex is a SaaS product for database performance monitoring. It accelerates IT delivery and improves database performance, reducing cost and increasing uptime (https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/vividcortex-product-demo-video).
Blackfire.io and VividCortex belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
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, VividCortex provides the following key features:
- top ranking capabilities
- intuitive user interface
- adaptive fault detection
Pros of Blackfire.io
- Deep insights into PHP request cycle7
- Performance profiling5
- Intuitive UI2