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Skylight vs Vector: What are the differences?
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; Vector: On-host performance monitoring framework which exposes hand picked high resolution metrics to every engineer’s browser, by Netflix. Vector provides a simple way for users to visualize and analyze system and application-level metrics in near real-time. It leverages the battle tested open source system monitoring framework, Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), layering on top a flexible and user-friendly UI. The UI polls metrics at up to 1 second resolution, rendering the data in completely configurable dashboards that simplify cross-metric correlation and analysis.
Skylight and Vector belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
Vector is an open source tool with 3.17K GitHub stars and 230 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vector's open source repository on GitHub.
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
Pros of Vector
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Cons of Skylight
- Comparing different timeframes is difficult1
