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AppSignal vs Skylight: What are the differences?
## Introduction
The following provides key differences between AppSignal and Skylight.
1. **Supported Technologies**: AppSignal offers support for Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, and Node.js, while Skylight focuses primarily on Ruby on Rails applications.
2. **Integration**: AppSignal offers seamless integrations with popular tools like GitHub, Slack, and PagerDuty to facilitate team collaboration and notifications, whereas Skylight focuses more on performance monitoring and optimization without extensive integrations.
3. **Monitoring Capabilities**: AppSignal provides detailed insights into error tracking, performance monitoring, and host metrics, offering a comprehensive view of your application's health, whereas Skylight focuses more on performance monitoring and has limited error tracking capabilities.
4. **Customization**: Skylight allows for more customization options in terms of setting specific performance metrics thresholds and creating custom dashboards, while AppSignal provides a more straightforward, out-of-the-box monitoring solution.
5. **Scalability**: AppSignal is known for its scalability features, making it suitable for both small and large applications, while Skylight is more tailored towards medium to large-scale Ruby on Rails applications.
6. **Cost**: Skylight offers a free plan for development use only, whereas AppSignal provides a 30-day free trial for all its plans, allowing users to test the features before committing to a paid subscription.
In Summary, the key differences between AppSignal and Skylight lie in their supported technologies, integration capabilities, monitoring features, customization options, scalability, and pricing structures.
Coming from a Ruby background, we've been users of New Relic for quite some time. When we adopted Elixir, the New Relic integration was young and missing essential features, so we gave AppSignal a try. It worked for quite some time, we even implemented a :telemetry
reporter for AppSignal . But it was difficult to correlate data in two monitoring solutions, New Relic was undergoing a UI overhaul which made it difficult to use, and AppSignal was missing the flexibility we needed. We had some fans of Datadog, so we gave it a try and it worked out perfectly. Datadog works great with Ruby , Elixir , JavaScript , and has powerful features our engineers love to use (notebooks, dashboards, very flexible alerting). Cherry on top - thanks to the Datadog Terraform provider everything is written as code, allowing us to collaborate on our Datadog setup.