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Server Density vs Skylight: What are the differences?
Server Density: 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; 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.
Server Density and Skylight belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Server Density are:
- 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
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
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- Great support and continuous improvement1
- Great interface, accurate, simple setup1
Pros of Skylight
- Beautiful UI11
- Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes8
- Made by ember.js and rails core team members8
- Actionable analytics with concrete numbers7
- Free tier6
- Shows you repeat db queries4
- Great for production use3
- Setup in a minute2
- Weekly email w/performance trends1
- Full MVC profile1
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- Comparing different timeframes is difficult1
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What is Server Density?
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.
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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What are some alternatives to Server Density and Skylight?
Datadog
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New Relic
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OpenCensus
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Azure Application Insights
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phpMyAdmin
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