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AppSignal vs Network Polygraph: What are the differences?
Developers describe AppSignal as "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.. On the other hand, Network Polygraph is detailed as "See what happens in your network. Instant deployment, no extra hardware". Simply export your router's stats to our cloud. All major vendors supported via NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX/jFlow.
AppSignal and Network Polygraph can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by AppSignal are:
- Track errors
- Performance Monitoring
- Compare deploys. Monitor background jobs.
On the other hand, Network Polygraph provides the following key features:
- Applications
- Protocols
- Top Talkers
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 Network Polygraph
- Easy deployment1
- Great UI1
- Clarity1