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Honeycomb: Observability for a distributed world--designed for high cardinality data and collaborative problem solving ππ. We built Honeycomb to answer the hard questions that come up when you're trying to operate your softwareβto debug microservices, serverless, distributed systems, polyglot persistence, containers, and a world of fast, parallel deploys; Skylight: 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.
Honeycomb and Skylight can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Honeycomb are:
- High-performance querying against high-cardinality or sparse events.
- Accepts any structured JSON objects with a write key.
- Submit events via API.
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 mostβin your production environment
- Pricing starts at $20 for the first million requests, with automatic discounts for high-volume customers
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- Powerful UI2
- High-Cardinality Data2
- BubbleUp + Heat maps2
- Better Value1
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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- Comparing different timeframes is difficult1
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What is Honeycomb?
We built Honeycomb to answer the hard questions that come up when you're trying to operate your softwareβto debug microservices, serverless, distributed systems, polyglot persistence, containers, and a world of fast, parallel deploys.
What is Skylight?
Skylight is a smart profiler for your Rails apps that visualizes request performance across all of your servers.
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