What is Falco?
It is an Open Source WebPageTest runner. It helps you monitor, analyze, and optimize your websites.
Falco is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Falco is an open source tool with 768 GitHub stars and 30 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Falco's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Falco?
Companies
Developers
7 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Falco.
Falco Integrations
Falco's Features
- Automatically run audits multiple times a day in many conditions
- See the evolution of key performance metrics to easily spot regressions
- Invite the whole team so that everyone (devs, ops, product, marketing…) is involved in performance
- Easily access and compare WebPageTest results between audits
Falco Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Falco?
Sysdig
Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
Sysdig is scriptable in Lua and includes a command line interface and a powerful interactive UI, csysdig, that runs in your terminal. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + awesome sauce.
With state of the art container visibility on top.
Buffalo
Buffalo is Go web framework. Yeah, I hate the word "framework" too! Buffalo is different though. Buffalo doesn't want to re-invent wheels like routing and templating. Buffalo is glue that wraps all of the best packages available and makes them all play nicely together.
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
