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Runscope vs Appwrite: What are the differences?
Developers describe Runscope as "API Performance Monitoring". Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring. On the other hand, Appwrite is detailed as "End to end backend server for frontend and mobile developers". It is a development platform, providing you with easy and beautiful APIs and advanced console, which simplify the development and maintenance workflow, allowing you and your team to focus on building great products.
Runscope and Appwrite belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Runscope are:
- Runscope Radar: Automatically monitor your APIs from around the globe. Integrates with PagerDuty, New Relic Insights, Keen IO, HipChat, Slack and more. Test complete API workflows with powerful assertions and notifications.
- Runscope Metrics: API performance and usage reports.
- Runscope API Traffic Inspector: Log and view API calls from any language or framework to any API to solve integration problems.
On the other hand, Appwrite provides the following key features:
- Cuts up to 70% of the time and costs required for building a modern application
- Fast and secure
- Store, query and manage access control to your app documents
Appwrite is an open source tool with 64 GitHub stars and 10 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Appwrite's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Appwrite
- Great UI9
- 100% open source7
- Easy to setup6
- End to end solution5
- Consistency across platforms4
- Easy to use3
- Small learning curve3
- Predictable REST API3
- Accelerate app development3
- Simplicity first attitude3
- Serverless2
- Credit Card Avatar2
- Built-in file encryption1
- Auto SSL certificate generator1
- Lot of security features1
- Built-in file scanner1
Pros of Runscope
- Great features17
- Easy to use15
- Nicely priced4
- Free plan4
- No install needed - runs on cloud2
- Decent2
- Collections1
- Dead simple and useful. Excellent1
- Awesome customer support1
- Import scripts from sources including Postman1
- Shareable Collections1
- Global & Collection level variables1
- Graphical view of response times historically1
- Integrations - StatusPage, PagerDuty, HipChat, Victorop1
- Run tests from multiple locations across globe1
- Schedule test collections to auto-run at intervals1
- Auto Re-run failed scheduled tests before notifying1
- Makes developing REST APIs easy1
- History feature - call history and response history1
- Restrict access by teams1
- Fully featured without looking cluttered1
- Can save and share scripts1