Instrumental vs Plumbr: 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 Plumbr? Java Performance Monitoring with automated root cause detection. It is a software solution for monitoring real users using a web application. The goal of the monitoring is to understand whether the application is performing as expected.

Instrumental and Plumbr can be categorized 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, Plumbr provides the following key features:

• Backlog Management
• Filtering
• Issue Tracking