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Request Metrics vs AppSignal: What are the differences?
Developers describe Request Metrics as "Get simplified performance metrics and actionable alerts to make your website go fast". Website performance monitoring, simplified for small teams. It's not a expensive APM "solution" or a complex query language to learn. It is the key metrics you need to know to keep your website running fast and your customers happy. On the other hand, AppSignal is detailed 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..
Request Metrics and AppSignal can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Request Metrics are:
- Real-user monitoring
- Performance monitoring
- Web vitals
On the other hand, AppSignal provides the following key features:
- Track errors
- Performance Monitoring
- Compare deploys. Monitor background jobs.
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