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TraceView vs VividCortex: What are the differences?
What is TraceView? 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.
What is VividCortex? The best way to monitor your production databases. VividCortex is a SaaS product for database performance monitoring. It accelerates IT delivery and improves database performance, reducing cost and increasing uptime (https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/vividcortex-product-demo-video).
TraceView and VividCortex can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by TraceView are:
- 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.
On the other hand, VividCortex provides the following key features:
- top ranking capabilities
- intuitive user interface
- adaptive fault detection
Pros of TraceView
- The heatmap helped me isolate DB related issues5
- Heatmap helped me find a Tomcat Memcached problem2
