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Boundary vs Librato: What are the differences?

What is Boundary? Real-time monitoring for server and applications with beatiful UI. Monitor it all: web servers, load balancers, application back-ends, big data clusters, queues, caching nodes, or databases. Boundary provides insights no matter what stack you use, whether you deploy in the cloud or your data center.

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.

Boundary and Librato can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Boundary are:

  • Monitor Servers and Applications in real-time
  • Generate Alarms
  • Customizable Dashboards

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

"Great Visualization" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Boundary, while over 13 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Librato.

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Pros of Librato
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    Easy setup
  • 4
    Great Visualization
  • 3
    1 second resolution
  • 3
    Automatic Dependency Mapping
  • 2
    Easy to use
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    Easy setup
  • 8
    Great visualization
  • 4
    Heroku integration
  • 3
    Free tier
  • 2
    Alerting

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What is Boundary?

Monitor it all: web servers, load balancers, application back-ends, big data clusters, queues, caching nodes, or databases. Boundary provides insights no matter what stack you use, whether you deploy in the cloud or your data center.

What is Librato?

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.

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