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AppSignal vs Boundary: What are the differences?
AppSignal: Monitoring for Ruby and Elixir. By developers, for developers. AppSignal gives you and your team alerts and detailed metrics about your Ruby or Elixir application Sensible pricing, no aggressive sales & support by developers.; Boundary: Real-time monitoring for server and applications with beatiful UI. Monitor it all: web servers, load balancers, application back-ends, big data clusters, queues, caching nodes, or databases. Boundary provides insights no matter what stack you use, whether you deploy in the cloud or your data center.
AppSignal and Boundary belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by AppSignal are:
- Track errors
- Performance Monitoring
- Compare deploys. Monitor background jobs.
On the other hand, Boundary provides the following key features:
- Monitor Servers and Applications in real-time
- Generate Alarms
- Customizable Dashboards
"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 5 developers like AppSignal, while over 2 developers mention "Great Visualization" as the leading cause for choosing Boundary.
Coming from a Ruby background, we've been users of New Relic for quite some time. When we adopted Elixir, the New Relic integration was young and missing essential features, so we gave AppSignal a try. It worked for quite some time, we even implemented a :telemetry reporter for AppSignal . But it was difficult to correlate data in two monitoring solutions, New Relic was undergoing a UI overhaul which made it difficult to use, and AppSignal was missing the flexibility we needed. We had some fans of Datadog, so we gave it a try and it worked out perfectly. Datadog works great with Ruby , Elixir , JavaScript , and has powerful features our engineers love to use (notebooks, dashboards, very flexible alerting). Cherry on top - thanks to the Datadog Terraform provider everything is written as code, allowing us to collaborate on our Datadog setup.
Pros of AppSignal
- Easy setup16
- Logs Errors9
- Tracks performance8
- Elixir support out of the box7
- Support Elixir7
- Profiles Ruby Memory Usage7
- Great UI6
- In App Customer support via chat5
- Custom metrics5
- Affordable, holistic, All-in-One solution for Rails5
- Anomaly detection5
- Cheapest option4
- GIT Integration4
Pros of Boundary
- Easy setup4
- Great Visualization4
- 1 second resolution3
- Automatic Dependency Mapping3
- Easy to use2
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