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SignalFx vs LightStep: What are the differences?
SignalFx: Monitoring and Operational Intelligence for the Cloud. We provide operational intelligence for today’s elastic architectures through monitoring specifically designed for microservices and containers with: -powerful and proactive alerting -metrics aggregation -visualization into time series data; LightStep: A fast way for developers and DevOps to adopt best-of-breed distributed tracing. It diagnoses anomalies and slowdowns, spanning mobile, monoliths, and micro services: best-in-class observability, at scale, for modern applications.
SignalFx and LightStep can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by SignalFx are:
- Beautiful streaming visualizations
- Meaningful, fast alerting using SignalFlow analytics
- High resolution metrics up to 1 sec
On the other hand, LightStep provides the following key features:
- ANALYZE EVERY TRANSACTION
- MEASURE PERFORMANCE WHERE IT MATTERS MOST
- PINPOINT THE ROOT CAUSE
Pros of LightStep
- Powerful UI3
- Easy setup3
- Observability End-to-End3
- Great Value3
- Fast RCA3
Pros of SignalFx
- High cardinality5
- Scalability5
- World class customer support4
- Easy to install4
- Fastest alerts4
