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Dashbird vs Skylight: What are the differences?
Developers describe Dashbird as "Monitoring and troubleshooting for serverless applications". Dashbird gives full visibility into serverless architectures. Failure detection, monitoring and debugging capabilities for AWS Lambda and event sources. Get up and running in 5 minutes without any performance overhead or code changes. On the other hand, Skylight is detailed as "The smart profiler for your Rails apps". Skylight is a smart profiler for your Rails apps that visualizes request performance across all of your servers.
Dashbird and Skylight belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Dashbird are:
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Full text search
On the other hand, Skylight provides the following key features:
- Skylight looks at how your code is behaving in production, alerting you to improvements you can make before they become showstoppers.
- Skylight tells you exactly how your app is spending its time where it matters most—in your production environment
- Pricing starts at $20 for the first million requests, with automatic discounts for high-volume customers
Pros of Dashbird
- Easy setup3
- Great overview in seconds1
- Actionable insights1
- Good centralized view for the tech leads1
Pros of Skylight
- Beautiful UI11
- Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes8
- Made by ember.js and rails core team members8
- Actionable analytics with concrete numbers7
- Free tier6
- Shows you repeat db queries4
- Great for production use3
- Setup in a minute2
- Weekly email w/performance trends1
- Full MVC profile1
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Cons of Dashbird
Cons of Skylight
- Comparing different timeframes is difficult1