Raygun vs Skylight

Skylight vs Raygun: What are the differences?

Skylight: 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; Raygun: Use Raygun to track, manage, and report your software errors. Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users with greater speed and accuracy.

Skylight and Raygun can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Skylight are:

• 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

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

• Error, crash and performance monitoring, in one platform
• Support for every major programming language and platform
• Minutes to set up

"Beautiful UI" is the top reason why over 10 developers like Skylight, while over 30 developers mention "Easy setup and brilliant features" as the leading cause for choosing Raygun.

According to the StackShare community, Raygun has a broader approval, being mentioned in 53 company stacks & 57 developers stacks; compared to Skylight, which is listed in 58 company stacks and 29 developer stacks.