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Pros of AppSignal
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    Easy setup
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    Logs Errors
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    Tracks performance
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    Elixir support out of the box
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    Support Elixir
  • 7
    Profiles Ruby Memory Usage
  • 6
    Great UI
  • 5
    In App Customer support via chat
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    Custom metrics
  • 5
    Affordable, holistic, All-in-One solution for Rails
  • 5
    Anomaly detection
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    Cheapest option
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    GIT Integration
  • 89
    Beautiful
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    Graphs are interactive
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    Free
  • 56
    Easy
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    Nicer than the Graphite web interface
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    Many integrations
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    Can build dashboards
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    Easy to specify time window
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    Can collaborate on dashboards
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    Dashboards contain number tiles
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    Open Source
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    Integration with InfluxDB
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    Click and drag to zoom in
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    Authentification and users management
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    Threshold limits in graphs
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    Alerts
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    It is open to cloud watch and many database
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    Simple and native support to Prometheus
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    Great community support
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    You can use this for development to check memcache
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    You can visualize real time data to put alerts
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    Grapsh as code
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      No interactive query builder

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    What is AppSignal?

    AppSignal gives you and your team alerts and detailed metrics about your Ruby, Node.js or Elixir application. Sensible pricing, no aggressive sales & support by developers.

    What is Grafana?

    Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.

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