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Instrumental vs Stackify: 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; 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.
Instrumental and Stackify belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
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, Stackify provides the following key features:
- Application Performance Management (APM), Custom metrics, Log management. Application monitoring
- Server Monitoring
- DB & queries monitoring
"Best, fastest, and easiest-to-use Interface" is the primary reason why developers consider Instrumental over the competitors, whereas "Error tracking" was stated as the key factor in picking Stackify.
Pros of Instrumental
- Best, fastest, and easiest-to-use Interface3
- Simple, powerful, reasonably priced2
- Custom metrics done right1
- Offers free metrics1
Pros of Stackify
- Error tracking8
- Monitoring7
- Easy setup7
- Log management7
- Real-time application health6
- Alerting6
- Application performance6
- exception tracking5
- Application Performance management2
- Good for .NET and Windows Server1
- Great APM with integrated log & exception management1