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Rating: 9 out of 10
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9 out of 10

Reviews

2 Reviews

Great tool to provide customers a bug free experience

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I closely work with the tech leads and engineering managers for the dev requirements. One of the major challenge they faced was not able to. test the application properly before production. Blackfire.io has helped address that issue by allowing proactive testing of applications before releasing on the production environment. It also provides actionable insights to improve code beforehand and saves time for the engineering team post any development.

Pros

  • Generate actionable insights to improve code by integrating with the development softwares
  • Ensure optimal performance and user experience for web applications
  • Live monitoring of the production environment to highlight any major issues and load time delays

Cons

  • 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

Likelihood to Recommend

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 in Product Management at Cars24 (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
blackfire.io
2 years of experience

Best QA Tool Out There!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization blackfire.io is used within our development team in order to test code and expose any performance issues before go live and while in production. This tool is used to analyze any bottlenecks in performance and call out any lackluster coding patterns that could ultimately lead to a bad roll out.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • blackfire.io can improve on their platform UI making the product easier to read and use
  • Improve on reporting issues in a more streamlined approach with more debugging tools
  • They could provide more support and documentation to those not aware of how to configure the tool.

Likelihood to Recommend

blackfire.io is best suited for any company that has a development team managing code releases into different environments. This tool is crucial in cases where there are codebase changes or upgrades and it really helps in load testing and code validity. With every new codebase release there could be a risk of how it affects the infrastructure supporting it so blackfire.io helps report on those metrics.

VU
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
blackfire.io
1 year of experience