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Kadira vs Skylight: What are the differences?

Developers describe Kadira as "Performance Monitoring for Meteor". See what’s going on with your app with different performance metrics and traces. Kadira tracks all your client and server errors automatically. You can profile your app in production or locally with Kadira and analyze it using an easy-to-use CPU analyzer. On the other hand, Skylight is detailed as "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.

Kadira and Skylight belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Kadira are:

  • Performance Metrics and Traces
  • Error Tracking
  • CPU Profiling

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 most—in your production environment
  • Pricing starts at $20 for the first million requests, with automatic discounts for high-volume customers

"Best performance monitoring tool for the best framewor" is the top reason why over 8 developers like Kadira, while over 10 developers mention "Beautiful UI" as the leading cause for choosing Skylight.

Kadira is an open source tool with 214 GitHub stars and 88 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kadira's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Kadira
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  • 9
    Best performance monitoring tool for the best framewor
  • 4
    Drop in integration
  • 2
    Just Look
  • 11
    Beautiful UI
  • 8
    Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes
  • 8
    Made by ember.js and rails core team members
  • 7
    Actionable analytics with concrete numbers
  • 6
    Free tier
  • 4
    Shows you repeat db queries
  • 3
    Great for production use
  • 2
    Setup in a minute
  • 1
    Weekly email w/performance trends
  • 1
    Full MVC profile

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    • 1
      Comparing different timeframes is difficult

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    What is Kadira?

    See what’s going on with your app with different performance metrics and traces. Kadira tracks all your client and server errors automatically. You can profile your app in production or locally with Kadira and analyze it using an easy-to-use CPU analyzer.

    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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