Stackify vs TraceView: What are the differences?

Developers describe Stackify as "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. On the other hand, TraceView is detailed as "Ridiculously Detailed Application Monitoring". Expose everything, from the webserver to database, cache and API calls. The core technology is based on X-Trace, a distributed tracing framework that’s served as the inspiration for companies like Google and Twitter.

Stackify and TraceView can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Stackify are:

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

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

• Track every machine involved in a transaction and identify bottlenecks in a single click.
• Isolate interesting calls and drill down to the line of code and machine it ran on.
• Tie together code and infrastructure metrics with database, service, and cache calls, all in the context of a single transaction.

"Error tracking" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Stackify, while over 2 developers mention "The heatmap helped me isolate DB related issues" as the leading cause for choosing TraceView.