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blackfire.io vs. Micro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued)

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    blackfire.io

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ABlackfire.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

    Micro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued)

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AMicro Focus Diagnostics was the analytics and issue diagnostics component of the Application Performance Management suite. It provided code-level visibility into transaction activity across applications and the network they are operating on. The product is no longer available for sale.N/A
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Features
    blackfire.ioMicro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued)
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of blackfire.io and Micro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Micro Focus Diagnostics (discontinued)
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
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    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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    I would say on 90% of our agent installs everything works without any modification. If the application however makes a large use of memory based cache and analysis that classes will need to be excluded from instrumentation or it will impact performance.
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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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    • Agent level customization - For highly performant applications we can easily exclude instrumentation, yet still receive the benefit of historical tracking on common data points like CPU, Heap and GC cycles.
    • Support - In the 5+ years working with the product any HP solution engagements have been quick to provide a needed configuration solution.
    • Agent Diversity - Have used the product across 6+ differing middleware technologies comprising dozens of version (both middleware and java) combinations.
    • Agent installation - With its ability to support a silent type install, automating was a simple task.
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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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    • The product does offer a lot of functionality - This can lead to a cluttered user interface and does take some time to become comfortable and proficient in its use.
    • Data Volume - We have had some issues in balancing the desire to keep all data and consuming infrastructure storage.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    While it has been several years since using BMC Patrol I like that HP doesn't require me to have a custom module added for every different type of product I would like to instrument.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Performance Tuning - Product is fully integrated to provide baseline and drift across releases.
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