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Librato vs Skylight: What are the differences?
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.
What is Skylight? The smart profiler for your Rails apps. Skylight is a smart profiler for your Rails apps that visualizes request performance across all of your servers.
Librato and Skylight can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Librato are:
- 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
On the other hand, Skylight provides the following key features:
- Skylight looks at how your code is behaving in production, alerting you to improvements you can make before they become showstoppers.
- Skylight tells you exactly how your app is spending its time where it matters most—in your production environment
- Pricing starts at $20 for the first million requests, with automatic discounts for high-volume customers
"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 13 developers like Librato, while over 10 developers mention "Beautiful UI" as the leading cause for choosing Skylight.
Heroku, Product Hunt, and Mapbox are some of the popular companies that use Librato, whereas Skylight is used by StackShare, Inside.com, and Firecracker. Librato has a broader approval, being mentioned in 61 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Skylight, which is listed in 39 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Librato
- Easy setup14
- Great visualization8
- Heroku integration4
- Free tier3
- Alerting2
Pros of Skylight
- Beautiful UI11
- Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes8
- Made by ember.js and rails core team members8
- Actionable analytics with concrete numbers7
- Free tier6
- Shows you repeat db queries4
- Great for production use3
- Setup in a minute2
- Weekly email w/performance trends1
- Full MVC profile1
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Cons of Librato
Cons of Skylight
- Comparing different timeframes is difficult1
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