What is Kamon?
Kamon helps developers find and fix performance issues in Akka and Play Framework microservices.
Kamon Telemetry is a battle tested free and open-source instrumentation library and Kamon APM is an easy-to-use APM with pre-built dashboards.
Kamon is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Kamon is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kamon's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Kamon?
Companies
Developers
6 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kamon.
Pros of Kamon
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Kamon's Features
- Pre built integrations for Akka/Play/JVM/JDBC
- Distributed tracing
- Services Map
- Separate test and production environments
- Host monitoring
- Custom dashboards
- Alerting
Kamon Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kamon?
Dropwizard
Dropwizard is a sneaky way of making fast Java web applications. Dropwizard pulls together stable, mature libraries from the Java ecosystem into a simple, light-weight package that lets you focus on getting things done.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
StatsD
It is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).
Datadog
Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!
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.
