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Skylight vs Stackify: 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; Stackify: Performance. Metrics. Errors. Logs. One platform. Stackify offers the only developers-friendly innovative cloud based solution that fully integrates application performance management (APM) with error and log. Allowing them to easily monitor, detect and resolve application issues faster.

Skylight and Stackify 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, Stackify provides the following key features:

  • Application Performance Management (APM), Custom metrics, Log management. Application monitoring
  • Server Monitoring
  • DB & queries monitoring

"Beautiful UI" is the top reason why over 10 developers like Skylight, while over 7 developers mention "Error tracking" as the leading cause for choosing Stackify.

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Pros of Skylight
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  • 11
    Beautiful UI
  • 8
    Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes
  • 8
    Made by ember.js and rails core team members
  • 7
    Actionable analytics with concrete numbers
  • 6
    Free tier
  • 4
    Shows you repeat db queries
  • 3
    Great for production use
  • 2
    Setup in a minute
  • 1
    Weekly email w/performance trends
  • 1
    Full MVC profile
  • 8
    Error tracking
  • 7
    Monitoring
  • 7
    Easy setup
  • 7
    Log management
  • 6
    Real-time application health
  • 6
    Alerting
  • 6
    Application performance
  • 5
    exception tracking
  • 2
    Application Performance management
  • 1
    Good for .NET and Windows Server
  • 1
    Great APM with integrated log & exception management

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Cons of Skylight
Cons of Stackify
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    Comparing different timeframes is difficult
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    What is Skylight?

    Skylight is a smart profiler for your Rails apps that visualizes request performance across all of your servers.

    What is Stackify?

    Stackify offers the only developers-friendly innovative cloud based solution that fully integrates application performance management (APM) with error and log. Allowing them to easily monitor, detect and resolve application issues faster

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