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Skylight

The smart profiler for your Rails apps
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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.
Skylight is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.

Who uses Skylight?

Companies
49 companies reportedly use Skylight in their tech stacks, including StackShare, Ritual, and Stash.

Developers
41 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Skylight.
Pros of Skylight
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Beautiful UI
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Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes
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Made by ember.js and rails core team members
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Actionable analytics with concrete numbers
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Free tier
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Shows you repeat db queries
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Great for production use
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Setup in a minute
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Weekly email w/performance trends
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Full MVC profile

Skylight's Features

  • 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
  • Skylight is built with badass hipster tech: Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, Rust, Storm, Dropwizard, Kafka, Cassandra, and more.

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