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Skylight
BySkylightSkylight

Skylight

#10in Performance Monitoring
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What is Skylight?

Skylight is a smart profiler for your Rails apps that visualizes request performance across all of your servers.

Skylight is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Skylight looks at how your code is behaving in production, alerting you to improvements you can make before they become showstoppers.Skylight tells you exactly how your app is spending its time where it matters most—in your production environmentPricing starts at $20 for the first million requests, with automatic discounts for high-volume customersSkylight is built with badass hipster tech: Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, Rust, Storm, Dropwizard, Kafka, Cassandra, and more.

Skylight Pros & Cons

Pros of Skylight

  • ✓Beautiful UI
  • ✓Made by ember.js and rails core team members
  • ✓Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes
  • ✓Actionable analytics with concrete numbers
  • ✓Free tier
  • ✓Shows you repeat db queries
  • ✓Great for production use
  • ✓Setup in a minute
  • ✓Full MVC profile
  • ✓Weekly email w/performance trends

Cons of Skylight

  • ✗Comparing different timeframes is difficult

Skylight Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Skylight?

New Relic

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.

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!

OpenCensus

OpenCensus

It is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metrics and distributed traces, then transfer the data to a backend of your choice in real time. This data can be analyzed by developers and admins to understand the health of the application and debug problems.

Dynatrace

Dynatrace

It is an AI-powered, full stack, automated performance management solution. It provides user experience analysis that identifies and resolves application performance issues faster than ever before.

Azure Application Insights

Azure Application Insights

It is an extensible Application Performance Management service for developers and DevOps professionals. Use it to monitor your live applications. It will automatically detect performance anomalies, and includes powerful analytics tools.

phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin

As a portable web application written primarily in PHP, it has become one of the most popular MySQL administration tools, especially for web hosting services.

Skylight Discussions

Discover why developers choose Skylight. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 2 of 3 discussions.

Amo Wu
Amo Wu

Front-end Engineer at Hahow

Jun 10, 2020

Needs adviceonScoutScoutRailsRailsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Analytics

Lawrence:發現繼續賴著用免費的 Scout 也不是辦法,因為目前沒有 N+1 的 tracing 可看,要優化報表 worker 也要有一些 tracing 參考才不會不小心優化過頭(i.e. 全部都很快但很醜的 SQL 重構,但也許其實只需要修掉幾個 N+1 query)。

看了一下各家 APM,已能夠精細追到 N+1 query 的 ruby code stacktrace 除了目前賴著用的 Scout 以外,AppSignal 也是用 request 數算錢,Skylight 更是因為無法設定 billing 上限已經列為拒絕往來戶。

目前找到 New Relic 是用機器數計費比較適合我們,平均 5 dyno 是 $99/mo 而平均 8 dyno 是 $159/mo,相較於前者們都便宜很多,Samuel 如果沒有什麼 concern 我就開一下 14 day trial 囉~?或是如果有人知道其他我漏掉的 APM 也歡迎提供~。

雖然 UI 跟舊版 Google Analytics 有得比(?),但 Rails 相關指標看起來比 Scout 還細,以後 tune performance 應該會很有幫助。

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Jonathan la Cour
Jonathan la Cour

Co-founder at Hund

Aug 8, 2016

Needs adviceonSkylightSkylight

An essential for determining production performance. It provides us with clear insights into what might be slowing down responses so we know exactly what to fix. Skylight

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