Instrumental vs LogicMonitor: What are the differences?

Instrumental: Visualize any aspect of your application performance, measure production code in real-time, and share with your entire team. Instrumental is a real-time application and server monitoring platform. With over a million datapoints processed every second, we're one of the highest scale monitoring services; LogicMonitor: SaaS-based, automated IT performance monitoring platform for On-Premise, Hybrid, and Cloud infrastructures. LogicMonitor provides the end-to-end visibility needed to maintain the performance and availability of business applications. It leverages automation and built-in intelligence to monitor today's complex and distributed infrastructures.

Instrumental and LogicMonitor can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Instrumental are:

• Application monitoring - we accept any volume of arbitrary data, making it easy to set up graphs to measure the performance of your application in real time
• Server monitoring - Ruby apps can use our instrumental tools gem to monitor information like CPU statistics, memory usage, disk space, and all the other things you'll need to monitor your servers. Language support - Ruby is supported using a custom library, and all other languages are supported with our Statsd backend
• RESTful API - upon authentication, data is collected and returned in strict JSON format

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

• Full Stack Performance Monitoring
• Pre-configured monitoring, with built-in alert thresholds, for 1000+ technologies
• Works with any Deployment Model: On-prem, Hybrid, & Hybrid Cloud

"Best, fastest, and easiest-to-use Interface" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Instrumental, while over 2 developers mention "Auto discovery" as the leading cause for choosing LogicMonitor.