Instrumental vs Request Metrics

Request Metrics vs Instrumental: What are the differences?

Developers describe Request Metrics as "Get simplified performance metrics and actionable alerts to make your website go fast". Website performance monitoring, simplified for small teams. It's not a expensive APM "solution" or a complex query language to learn. It is the key metrics you need to know to keep your website running fast and your customers happy. On the other hand, Instrumental is detailed as "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.

Request Metrics and Instrumental can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Request Metrics are:

• Real-user monitoring
• Performance monitoring
• Web vitals

On the other hand, Instrumental provides the following key features:

• 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