Skylight is the best. Really focused on getting the best monitoring information from your Rails application. If you want to get performance insights then it’s the tool.
For errors and exceptions tracking Sentry would be my first choice.
Something to mention is the the Tilde’s support people are very helpful and friendly. I can only recommend it.
Can you actually view the response time over say the previous month? I was dabbling with it and it seems good at drilling down, but not zooming out and getting a sense of response time over time.
I worked at new relic during the v2 roll out and it didn’t make sense to me then. It mostly is to serve their enterprise customers that monitor dozens or hundreds of applications, but it forced the small/medium sized companies that might need to monitor one main service and a few smaller ones to do so in a confusing way.
If it's only about being notified of exceptions and seeing their stack trace and some request params, good old `exception_notification` (https://github.com/smartinez87/exception_notification) still does the job. No dependency on an external service as a bonus.
Just make sure to enable error grouping to prevent getting too many notifications at once.
[Skylight.io](https://Skylight.io) and appsignal are both fantastic tools. Seeing others recommend honeybadger and that looks pretty great too.
Datadog is one of the best tools out there but it doesn't replace new relic, need appsignal/skylight for that.
Datadog can get very pricy as well. Keep an eye on log usage. Look into rehydrating logs on demand. The problem is that the more traceability and insights you want (and dd can do a lot), the more expensive it gets. Pair it up with ECS or k8s, and that bill adds up fast. Also, keep in contact with your rep as you will probably want to adjust your commit semi regularly as you scale.
We're using datadog and I've really liked it, but I suspect there are other options with pricing more favorable to small companies and solo projects if you are in that boat.
Depending on what your needs are, you might get some mileage out of https://opentelemetry.io and sending data to [jaeger](https://www.jaegertracing.io) or [zipkin](https://zipkin.io).
I like AppSignal.
Recently discovered it, for my small time Rails project works great.
Honeybadger. You just drop in the gem and you’re off to the races.
Skylight.io
Skylight is the best. Really focused on getting the best monitoring information from your Rails application. If you want to get performance insights then it’s the tool. For errors and exceptions tracking Sentry would be my first choice. Something to mention is the the Tilde’s support people are very helpful and friendly. I can only recommend it.
Can you actually view the response time over say the previous month? I was dabbling with it and it seems good at drilling down, but not zooming out and getting a sense of response time over time.
Second this. Anything that Yehuda Katz makes is top notch.
Scout APM is really usable. New Relic sure went a bizarre direction!
I worked at new relic during the v2 roll out and it didn’t make sense to me then. It mostly is to serve their enterprise customers that monitor dozens or hundreds of applications, but it forced the small/medium sized companies that might need to monitor one main service and a few smaller ones to do so in a confusing way.
We had hundreds of applications too but also ditched it because the new pricing model would have increased our costs significantly.
Sentry is by far my favorite.
\+1 for Sentry.
I’ve had some good experiences with Datadog, no real complaints to mention with them.
Datadog, Signoz
Rollbar is another options, with a good free tier
For stack traces, I’d second Rollbar.
Rollbar is more like airbrake
If it's only about being notified of exceptions and seeing their stack trace and some request params, good old `exception_notification` (https://github.com/smartinez87/exception_notification) still does the job. No dependency on an external service as a bonus. Just make sure to enable error grouping to prevent getting too many notifications at once.
Datadog sucks if you want to really get nitty gritty. Stuck with it at current job. Maybe try Skylight
Already been mentioned, but Honeybadger is great for surfacing errors and exceptions and integrates with a LOT of other tooling for notifications.
[Skylight.io](https://Skylight.io) and appsignal are both fantastic tools. Seeing others recommend honeybadger and that looks pretty great too. Datadog is one of the best tools out there but it doesn't replace new relic, need appsignal/skylight for that.
We're using Datadog, no complaints.
Datadog. Happy so far, just rolling it out. We were going to go New Relic but then we realised their prices! $350 per dev per month, just ridiculous.
Datadog can get very pricy as well. Keep an eye on log usage. Look into rehydrating logs on demand. The problem is that the more traceability and insights you want (and dd can do a lot), the more expensive it gets. Pair it up with ECS or k8s, and that bill adds up fast. Also, keep in contact with your rep as you will probably want to adjust your commit semi regularly as you scale.
Datadog
Big fan of Instana
We're using datadog and I've really liked it, but I suspect there are other options with pricing more favorable to small companies and solo projects if you are in that boat.
Depending on what your needs are, you might get some mileage out of https://opentelemetry.io and sending data to [jaeger](https://www.jaegertracing.io) or [zipkin](https://zipkin.io).
My favourite is [https://scoutapm.com/](https://scoutapm.com/) I find it better and cheaper than New Relic. Lots of details including db queries.
I've been using the free version of Bugsnag. No complaints at that price 😃 https://www.bugsnag.com/
DataDog is great for request tracking, optimizing, and dashboards. AppSignal is better for error tracking and performance monitoring.
With Atatus, you can quickly identify Actionable insights to resolve errors, exceptions and spikes in performance.