blackfire.io vs. NetStorm

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
NetStorm
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Cavisson’s NetStorm is a performance testing and capacity analysis appliance. It is a load generator that provides an accurate estimation of Client Perceived Response Time (CPRT) enabling IT companies to guarantee Service Level Agreements (SLA). Its technology handles load variables, user realism, application realism and network realism. The vendor says NetStorm is a proven solution providing root cause of the issues early in the application life cycle. Additionally, the vendor says what makes…N/A
Pricing
blackfire.ioNetStorm
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
blackfire.ioNetStorm
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTo get started with NetStorm, email us at sales@cavisson.com
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Community Pulse
blackfire.ioNetStorm
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Best Alternatives
blackfire.ioNetStorm
Small Businesses
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
blackfire.ioNetStorm
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
blackfire.ioNetStorm
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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Cavisson Systems
[NetStorm] is well suited for an enterprise use, we are smaller business and it is not as suitable but we still use it.
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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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Cavisson Systems
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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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Cavisson Systems
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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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Cavisson Systems
We have not really used any other products like this.
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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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Cavisson Systems
  • Helps with performance
  • Easy load testing
  • Saves time and money
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ScreenShots

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