Blackfire.io vs Librato

Blackfire.io vs Librato: What are the differences?

What is Blackfire.io? Blackfire Profiler automatically instruments your code to gather data about consumed server resources like memory, CPU time, and I/O. Blackfire achieves a new level of accuracy by aggregating several profile samples and getting rid of non relevant data. Get even deeper and review the interactions with your entire stack (SQL database engines, cache servers, ...).

What is Librato? Real-Time Cloud Monitoring. Librato provides a complete solution for monitoring and understanding the metrics that impact your business at all levels of the stack. We provide everything you need to visualize, analyze, and actively alert on the metrics that matter to you.

Blackfire.io and Librato can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Blackfire.io are:

• Profile a page at a mouse click thanks to the Blackfire web browser extension
• Browse through the function calls and identify performance bottlenecks thanks to the Blackfire intuitive UI
• Because Blackfire is only triggered when you profile a request, there is no overhead for other requests

On the other hand, Librato provides the following key features:

• REST API accepts any metrics you define
• Turnkey integration with AWS, Heroku, collectd, and more
• Integrates with more than 100 open-source agents, and language bindings

"Deep insights into PHP request cycle" is the primary reason why developers consider Blackfire.io over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking Librato.

According to the StackShare community, Librato has a broader approval, being mentioned in 61 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Blackfire.io, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.