Instrumental vs Server Density: What are the differences?

Developers describe Instrumental 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. On the other hand, Server Density is detailed as "Trusted monitoring built by experts". SaaS-based scalable infrastructure monitoring to help businesses save time and money. With advanced server and website monitoring alerts, graphing tools and integrations with all major cloud service providers.

Instrumental and Server Density 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, Server Density provides the following key features:

• Open source agent, plugin library, full API and Nagios compatibility
• Automatic install via script, system packages, Puppet, Chef, Ansible & Salt Stack
• Apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV and Slackbot