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blackfire.io

Overview
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blackfire.io
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Blackfire.io is designed to empower PHP developers to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance in development, testing, staging and production. It makes it possible to drill down to function/method call level to understand and fix performance bottlenecks. The vendor says its wide variety of automation options makes it a breeze to add it to a development and testing workflow. The Blackfire Player, an Open Source Web Crawling, Web Tester, and Web…N/A
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blackfire.io
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Pricing Offerings
blackfire.io
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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Community Pulse
blackfire.io
Considered Both Products
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Yatin Garg
Product Manager
Chose blackfire.io
The pricing offered by blackfire.io was highly competitive and customisable as we opted for pay per use pricing model. Initial setup was very easy. The support team provided us with the detailed demo of the product and helped with the initial integration and setup. We already …
Verified User
Technician
Chose blackfire.io
blackfire.io definitely provides an edge over competing products such as Datadog due to the level of monitoring and analysis it provides. Datadog is a great tool however when evaluating and catching inefficiencies in lower non production environments, blackfire.io provides a …
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User Ratings
blackfire.io
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
blackfire.io
Likelihood to Recommend
Blackfire
Blackfire.io is super helpful in allowing proactive testing of applications before releasing on the production environment. Blackfire.io provides actionable insights to improve code proactively by integration with the development software. Also tracks the live production environment and is able to highlight any loading issues or unusual bounce rates. Blackfire.io also monitors HTTP requests and SQL queries which again help improve efficiency for developers and reduce development time.
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Yatin Garg
Product Manager
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Pros
Blackfire
  • Provide details on processes eating up valuable server resources
  • Alert against bottlenecks and find bottlenecks
  • Performs load tests in code before moving to production environments
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Cons
Blackfire
  • They count same API endpoint AND same method (e.g. POST, OPTIONS, GET etc) as different profiles
  • Customer service needs a lot of improvement
  • The documentation can be a bit more detailed to remove any scope of doubts
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Yatin Garg
Product Manager
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Blackfire
blackfire.io definitely provides an edge over competing products such as Datadog due to the level of monitoring and analysis it provides. Datadog is a great tool however when evaluating and catching inefficiencies in lower non production environments, blackfire.io provides a level of reporting that were did not find any competing products.
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Return on Investment
Blackfire
  • Reduce in bugs by 50%, more happy customers
  • 2x decrease in load time for the website
  • 100% performance validation before production release
YG
Yatin Garg
Product Manager
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