SignalFx
Ozan Turgut
May 15, 2015
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CommentsWhat is SignalFx?
We provide operational intelligence for today’s elastic architectures through monitoring specifically designed for microservices and containers with: -powerful and proactive alerting -metrics aggregation -visualization into time series data
SignalFx is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Beautiful streaming visualizationsMeaningful, fast alerting using SignalFlow analyticsHigh resolution metrics up to 1 secFilter & aggregate by dimesions like source, geo, customer, etcBuild custom real-time analytics pipelinesUse dynamic alert thresholds like moving averagesGet alerts in PagerDuty, VictorOps, HipChat, Slack, & moreOverlay events like alerts, pushes, CI runs, etcIntegrations with AWS services, Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, Mongo, MySQL & much moreUse OSS agents and metrics libraries like collectd, StatsD, etcProvides OSS libraries in Java, Python, Go, Node, Ruby, etcProvides OSS proxy to consume existing metricsREST API
SignalFx Pros & Cons
Pros of SignalFx
- ✓High cardinality
- ✓Scalability
- ✓Easy to install
- ✓Fastest alerts
- ✓World class customer support
Cons of SignalFx
No cons listed yet.
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