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Skylight

The smart profiler for your Rails apps
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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.

Who uses Skylight?

Companies
49 companies reportedly use Skylight in their tech stacks, including StackShare, Ritual, and Stash.

Developers
41 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Skylight.
Pros of Skylight
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Beautiful UI
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Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes
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Made by ember.js and rails core team members
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Actionable analytics with concrete numbers
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Free tier
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Shows you repeat db queries
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Great for production use
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Setup in a minute
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Weekly email w/performance trends
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Full MVC profile

Skylight's 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 environment
  • Pricing starts at $20 for the first million requests, with automatic discounts for high-volume customers
  • Skylight is built with badass hipster tech: Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, Rust, Storm, Dropwizard, Kafka, Cassandra, and more.

Skylight Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Skylight?
Aura
The Aura project centers around a collection of high-quality, well-tested, semantically versioned, standards-compliant, independent library packages that can be used in any codebase.
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 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
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.
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.
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Skylight's Followers
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