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TraceView vs Metricly: What are the differences?
What is TraceView? Ridiculously Detailed Application Monitoring. Expose everything, from the webserver to database, cache and API calls. The core technology is based on X-Trace, a distributed tracing framework that’s served as the inspiration for companies like Google and Twitter.
What is Metricly? A platform that coaches users throughout their cloud journey to safely and easily control their public cloud spending. It is a SaaS-based adaptive monitoring solution that helps organizations monitor cloud services, applications, infrastructure, and public cloud costs.
TraceView and Metricly can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by TraceView are:
- Track every machine involved in a transaction and identify bottlenecks in a single click.
- Isolate interesting calls and drill down to the line of code and machine it ran on.
- Tie together code and infrastructure metrics with database, service, and cache calls, all in the context of a single transaction.
On the other hand, Metricly provides the following key features:
- Capacity analytics
- Performance analytics
- Demand monitoring
Pros of Metricly
Pros of TraceView
- The heatmap helped me isolate DB related issues5
- Heatmap helped me find a Tomcat Memcached problem2