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SignalFx vs SPM: What are the differences?

Developers describe SignalFx as "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. On the other hand, SPM is detailed as "Monitoring, Alerting, and Anomaly Detection". Cloud and On Premises Performance Monitoring, Alerting, and Anomaly Detection with Log Correlation, Events, and Custom Metrics.

SignalFx and SPM can be categorized 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, SPM provides the following key features:

  • Cloud and On Premises
  • Out of the box dashboards for numerous integrations
  • Alerting and anomal detection
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    What is SignalFx?

    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

    What is SPM?

    Cloud and On Premises Performance Monitoring, Alerting, and Anomaly Detection with Log Correlation, Events, and Custom Metrics.

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    What are some alternatives to SignalFx and SPM?
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    Splunk
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    Sumo Logic
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    Zipkin
    It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures. Features include both the collection and lookup of this data.
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