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Instrumental vs OpsDash: What are the differences?
What is Instrumental? Visualize any aspect of your application performance, measure production code in real-time, and share with your entire team. Instrumental is a real-time application and server monitoring platform. With over a million datapoints processed every second, we're one of the highest scale monitoring services.
What is OpsDash? All-in-one solution for monitoring servers, services, uptime and databases. Curated Dashboards. Rule-based alerting. OpsDash an all-in-one solution for monitoring servers, services, uptime & databases. It's been built from the ground up for maximum performance. OpsDash is fast to setup and easy to use. Available in SaaS and self-hosted versions.
Instrumental and OpsDash can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Instrumental are:
- Application monitoring - we accept any volume of arbitrary data, making it easy to set up graphs to measure the performance of your application in real time
- Server monitoring - Ruby apps can use our instrumental tools gem to monitor information like CPU statistics, memory usage, disk space, and all the other things you'll need to monitor your servers. Language support - Ruby is supported using a custom library, and all other languages are supported with our Statsd backend
- RESTful API - upon authentication, data is collected and returned in strict JSON format
On the other hand, OpsDash provides the following key features:
- monitor servers, services and databases
- smart agent
- easy to setup and use
Pros of Instrumental
- Best, fastest, and easiest-to-use Interface3
- Simple, powerful, reasonably priced2
- Custom metrics done right1
- Offers free metrics1
Pros of OpsDash
- Easy setup2
- Nice dashboards2
- Smart Agent2
- Database Monitoring Dasboards2
- Affordable1
- Uptime Monitoring1
- Alerting1
- Integrations1
