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blackfire.io vs. Kubecost

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
Kubecost
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Founded by ex-Google cloud engineers and PMs, Stackwatch headquartered in San Francisco, aims to enable teams to operate Kubernetes and cloud native infrastructure at scale. Their flagship product Kubecost is presented as tooling and intelligence to manage cost, performance, reliability and other infrastructure operability challenges.
$449
per month
Pricing
blackfire.ioKubecost
Editions & Modules
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Business
$449
per month 100 nodes
Enterprise
Custom Quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
blackfire.ioKubecost
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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blackfire.ioKubecost
Small Businesses
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
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vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
blackfire.ioKubecost
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
blackfire.ioKubecost
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.
YG
Yatin Garg
Product Manager
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
Well suited for a k8 platform and the clients on the platform however doesn’t help as much for a total enterprise cloud cost that is not running on k8
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Anonymous
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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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Anonymous
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
  • Show namespace level cost and usage
  • Allow rightisizibg At namespace level
  • Show effectiveness of current resources allocation
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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
YG
Yatin Garg
Product Manager
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
  • Agents installation and the ping fed integration
  • The amount of CPU Kubecost agents use
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Anonymous
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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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Anonymous
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
Namespace cost, usage and efficiency data and ability to optimize for k8 containers
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Anonymous
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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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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
  • Allowed individual teams to better their cloud architecture for cost efficiency
  • Save on cloud investment
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Anonymous
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