blackfire.io vs. Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Keysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Keysight Network Test, consisting of the former Ixia BreakingPoint and Ixia Hawkeye product brands, among other tools, helps the user exceed customer expectations by ensuring high performance of wired, Wi-Fi, and 3G/4G/LTE networks in both pre-deployment and real-world environments.N/A
Pricing
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blackfire.ioKeysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.6 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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Score 7.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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Score 7.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
blackfire.ioKeysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
blackfire.ioKeysight Network Test (Ixia BreakingPoint & Hawkeye)
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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Keysight Technologies
Keysight BreakingPoint Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service Cybersecurity Assessment Platform which ensures optimal configuration of DDoS protection services and performs regularly scheduled validations using an always up-to-date library of DDoS attacks. BreakingPoint Cloud has intelligence of more than 20 years of leadership in network security testing to reveal your security exposure across public, private, and hybrid networks.
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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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Keysight Technologies
  • Scalability
  • DDoS Protection
  • Data Security Compliance
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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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Keysight Technologies
  • Cost Effective
  • Multi Vendor Support
  • Private Cloud support
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Alternatives Considered
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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Keysight Technologies
Keysight Breaking Point stacks up against others as it has an intelligence for more than 20 years. It gives evidence to document DDoS protection compliance to comply the regulatory compliance. To eliminate attacks, Keysight’s Breaking Point Cloud provides a real time IP validation, confirming you can simulate DDoS tests only against resources on your Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.
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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
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Keysight Technologies
  • Data Center Micro Segmentation
  • Scada Network Security
  • Application and Threat Intelligence
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