It gives instant, programmatic and unified access to application performance data and signals without needing to change code, configure manual GUIs or move data off-cluster. Application-developers, Platform/Infra engineers and DevOps/SREs use Pixie to efficiently run a wide range of analyses.
Pixie is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
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What are some alternatives to Pixie?
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, minikube, Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon EKS are some of the popular tools that integrate with Pixie. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Pixie.
Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.
