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Alternatives to New Relic

Datadog, AppDynamics, Splunk, Airbrake, and Prometheus are the most popular alternatives and competitors to New Relic.
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What is New Relic and what are its top alternatives?

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.
New Relic is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.
New Relic is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to New Relic's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to New Relic

  • Datadog
    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! ...

  • AppDynamics
    AppDynamics

    AppDynamics develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem resolution for highly distributed applications through transaction flow monitoring and deep diagnostics. ...

  • Splunk
    Splunk

    It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. ...

  • Airbrake
    Airbrake

    Airbrake collects errors for your applications in all major languages and frameworks. We alert you to new errors and give you critical context, trends and details needed to find and fix errors fast. ...

  • Prometheus
    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. ...

  • Sentry
    Sentry

    Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. ...

  • Nagios
    Nagios

    Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License. ...

  • ruxit
    ruxit

    Ruxit is a all-in-one performance monitoring solution for cloud natives. In under five minutes customizable dashboard views show you your application's performance data. ...

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Datadog

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PROS OF DATADOG
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    Monitoring for many apps (databases, web servers, etc)
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    Easy setup
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    Powerful ui
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    Powerful integrations
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    Great value
  • 54
    Great visualization
  • 46
    Events + metrics = clarity
  • 41
    Notifications
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    Custom metrics
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    Flexibility
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    Free & paid plans
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    Great customer support
  • 15
    Makes my life easier
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    Adapts automatically as i scale up
  • 9
    Easy setup and plugins
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    Super easy and powerful
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    In-context collaboration
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    AWS support
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    Rich in features
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    Docker support
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    Cute logo
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    Source control and bug tracking
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    Monitor almost everything
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    Cost
  • 4
    Full visibility of applications
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    Simple, powerful, great for infra
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    Easy to Analyze
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    Best than others
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    Automation tools
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    Best in the field
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    Free setup
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    Good for Startups
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    Expensive
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    APM
CONS OF DATADOG
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    Expensive
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    No errors exception tracking
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    External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging
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    Complicated

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Noah Zoschke
Engineering Manager at Segment · | 30 upvotes · 298K views

We just launched the Segment Config API (try it out for yourself here) — a set of public REST APIs that enable you to manage your Segment configuration. Behind the scenes the Config API is built with Go , GRPC and Envoy.

At Segment, we build new services in Go by default. The language is simple so new team members quickly ramp up on a codebase. The tool chain is fast so developers get immediate feedback when they break code, tests or integrations with other systems. The runtime is fast so it performs great at scale.

For the newest round of APIs we adopted the GRPC service #framework.

The Protocol Buffer service definition language makes it easy to design type-safe and consistent APIs, thanks to ecosystem tools like the Google API Design Guide for API standards, uber/prototool for formatting and linting .protos and lyft/protoc-gen-validate for defining field validations, and grpc-gateway for defining REST mapping.

With a well designed .proto, its easy to generate a Go server interface and a TypeScript client, providing type-safe RPC between languages.

For the API gateway and RPC we adopted the Envoy service proxy.

The internet-facing segmentapis.com endpoint is an Envoy front proxy that rate-limits and authenticates every request. It then transcodes a #REST / #JSON request to an upstream GRPC request. The upstream GRPC servers are running an Envoy sidecar configured for Datadog stats.

The result is API #security , #reliability and consistent #observability through Envoy configuration, not code.

We experimented with Swagger service definitions, but the spec is sprawling and the generated clients and server stubs leave a lot to be desired. GRPC and .proto and the Go implementation feels better designed and implemented. Thanks to the GRPC tooling and ecosystem you can generate Swagger from .protos, but it’s effectively impossible to go the other way.

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Robert Zuber

Our primary source of monitoring and alerting is Datadog. We’ve got prebuilt dashboards for every scenario and integration with PagerDuty to manage routing any alerts. We’ve definitely scaled past the point where managing dashboards is easy, but we haven’t had time to invest in using features like Anomaly Detection. We’ve started using Honeycomb for some targeted debugging of complex production issues and we are liking what we’ve seen. We capture any unhandled exceptions with Rollbar and, if we realize one will keep happening, we quickly convert the metrics to point back to Datadog, to keep Rollbar as clean as possible.

We use Segment to consolidate all of our trackers, the most important of which goes to Amplitude to analyze user patterns. However, if we need a more consolidated view, we push all of our data to our own data warehouse running PostgreSQL; this is available for analytics and dashboard creation through Looker.

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AppDynamics

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Application management for the cloud generation
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PROS OF APPDYNAMICS
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    Deep code visibility
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    Powerful
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    Real-Time Visibility
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    Great visualization
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    Easy Setup
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    Comprehensive Coverage of Programming Languages
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    Deep DB Troubleshooting
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    Excellent Customer Support
CONS OF APPDYNAMICS
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    Expensive
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    Poor to non-existent integration with aws services

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Farzeem Diamond Jiwani
Software Engineer at IVP · | 8 upvotes · 1.4M views

Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.

Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS

Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure

Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server

Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.

Please advise on the above. Thanks!

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We are evaluating an APM tool and would like to select between AppDynamics or Datadog. Our applications are largely hosted on Microsoft Azure but we would keep the option to move to AWS or Google Cloud Platform in the future.

In addition to core Azure services, we will be hosting other components - including MongoDB, Keycloak, PagerDuty, etc. Our applications are largely C# and React-based using frontend for Backend patterns and Azure API gateway. In addition, there are close to 50+ external services integrated using both REST and SOAP.

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Splunk

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Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data
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PROS OF SPLUNK
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    API for searching logs, running reports
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    Alert system based on custom query results
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    Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc
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    Dashboarding on any log contents
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    Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing
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    Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc
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    Rich GUI for searching live logs
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    Ability to style search results into reports
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    Granular scheduling and time window support
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    Query any log as key-value pairs
CONS OF SPLUNK
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    Splunk query language rich so lots to learn

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I am designing a Django application for my organization which will be used as an internal tool. The infra team said that I will not be having SSH access to the production server and I will have to log all my backend application messages to Splunk. I have no knowledge of Splunk so the following are the approaches I am considering: Approach 1: Create an hourly cron job that uploads the server log file to some Splunk storage for later analysis. - Is this possible? Approach 2: Is it possible just to stream the logs to some splunk endpoint? (If yes, I feel network usage and communication overhead will be a pain-point for my application)

Is there any better or standard approach? Thanks in advance.

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I use Kibana because it ships with the ELK stack. I don't find it as powerful as Splunk however it is light years above grepping through log files. We previously used Grafana but found it to be annoying to maintain a separate tool outside of the ELK stack. We were able to get everything we needed from Kibana.

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Airbrake

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Airbrake captures and groups errors in Ruby, iOS, Django, PHP & more.
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PROS OF AIRBRAKE
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    Reliable
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    Consolidates similar errors
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    Easy setup
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    Slack Integration
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    Github Integration
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    Email notifications
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    Includes a free plan
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    Android Application to view errors.
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    Search and filtering
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    Shows request parameters
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    Heroku integration
CONS OF AIRBRAKE
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    Rejects error report if non-latin characters exists

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Prometheus

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An open-source service monitoring system and time series database, developed by SoundCloud
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PROS OF PROMETHEUS
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    Powerful easy to use monitoring
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    Flexible query language
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    Dimensional data model
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    Alerts
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    Active and responsive community
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    Extensive integrations
  • 19
    Easy to setup
  • 12
    Beautiful Model and Query language
  • 7
    Easy to extend
  • 6
    Nice
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    Written in Go
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    Good for experimentation
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    Easy for monitoring
CONS OF PROMETHEUS
  • 12
    Just for metrics
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    Bad UI
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    Needs monitoring to access metrics endpoints
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    Not easy to configure and use
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    Supports only active agents
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    Written in Go
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    TLS is quite difficult to understand
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    Requires multiple applications and tools
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    Single point of failure

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Matt Menzenski
Senior Software Engineering Manager at PayIt · | 16 upvotes · 1M views

Grafana and Prometheus together, running on Kubernetes , is a powerful combination. These tools are cloud-native and offer a large community and easy integrations. At PayIt we're using exporting Java application metrics using a Dropwizard metrics exporter, and our Node.js services now use the prom-client npm library to serve metrics.

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 15 upvotes · 4.9M views

Why we spent several years building an open source, large-scale metrics alerting system, M3, built for Prometheus:

By late 2014, all services, infrastructure, and servers at Uber emitted metrics to a Graphite stack that stored them using the Whisper file format in a sharded Carbon cluster. We used Grafana for dashboarding and Nagios for alerting, issuing Graphite threshold checks via source-controlled scripts. While this worked for a while, expanding the Carbon cluster required a manual resharding process and, due to lack of replication, any single node’s disk failure caused permanent loss of its associated metrics. In short, this solution was not able to meet our needs as the company continued to grow.

To ensure the scalability of Uber’s metrics backend, we decided to build out a system that provided fault tolerant metrics ingestion, storage, and querying as a managed platform...

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PROS OF SENTRY
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    Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy
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    Email Notifications
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    Open source
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    Slack integration
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    Github integration
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    Easy
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    User-friendly interface
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    The most important tool we use in production
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    Hipchat integration
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    Heroku Integration
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    Good documentation
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    Free tier
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    Self-hosted
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    Easy setup
  • 7
    Realiable
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    Provides context, and great stack trace
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    Feedback form on error pages
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    Love it baby
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    Gitlab integration
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    Filter by custom tags
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    Super user friendly
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    Captures local variables at each frame in backtraces
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    Easy Integration
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    Performance measurements
CONS OF SENTRY
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    Confusing UI
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    Bundle size

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Lucas Litton
Founder & CEO at Macombey · | 24 upvotes · 297.3K views

Sentry has been essential to our development approach. Nobody likes errors or apps that crash. We use Sentry heavily during Node.js and React development. Our developers are able to see error reports, crashes, user's browsers, and more, all in one place. Sentry also seamlessly integrates with Asana, Slack, and GitHub.

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Johnny Bell

For my portfolio websites and my personal OpenSource projects I had started exclusively using React and JavaScript so I needed a way to track any errors that we're happening for my users that I didn't uncover during my personal UAT.

I had narrowed it down to two tools LogRocket and Sentry (I also tried Bugsnag but it did not make the final two). Before I get into this I want to say that both of these tools are amazing and whichever you choose will suit your needs well.

I firstly decided to go with LogRocket the fact that they had a recorded screen capture of what the user was doing when the bug happened was amazing... I could go back and rewatch what the user did to replicate that error, this was fantastic. It was also very easy to setup and get going. They had options for React and Redux.js so you can track all your Redux.js actions. I had a fairly large Redux.js store, this was ended up being a issue, it killed the processing power on my machine, Chrome ended up using 2-4gb of ram, so I quickly disabled the Redux.js option.

After using LogRocket for a month or so I decided to switch to Sentry. I noticed that Sentry was openSorce and everyone was talking about Sentry so I thought I may as well give it a test drive. Setting it up was so easy, I had everything up and running within seconds. It also gives you the option to wrap an errorBoundry in React so get more specific errors. The simplicity of Sentry was a breath of fresh air, it allowed me find the bug that was shown to the user and fix that very simply. The UI for Sentry is beautiful and just really clean to look at, and their emails are also just perfect.

I have decided to stick with Sentry for the long run, I tested pretty much all the JS error loggers and I find Sentry the best.

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Nagios

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PROS OF NAGIOS
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    The Most flexible monitoring system
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    Conor Myhrvold
    Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 15 upvotes · 4.9M views

    Why we spent several years building an open source, large-scale metrics alerting system, M3, built for Prometheus:

    By late 2014, all services, infrastructure, and servers at Uber emitted metrics to a Graphite stack that stored them using the Whisper file format in a sharded Carbon cluster. We used Grafana for dashboarding and Nagios for alerting, issuing Graphite threshold checks via source-controlled scripts. While this worked for a while, expanding the Carbon cluster required a manual resharding process and, due to lack of replication, any single node’s disk failure caused permanent loss of its associated metrics. In short, this solution was not able to meet our needs as the company continued to grow.

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    PROS OF RUXIT
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      Great customer support
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