Dashbird

Dashbird is a monitoring, debugging, and intelligence platform designed to assist serverless developers in building, operating, improving, and scaling their cloud applications on the AWS environment. According to the vendor, Dashbird is suitable for companies of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises, and is used by software developers, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, IT managers, technology startups, IT operations teams, and SaaS companies.

Key Features

Agentless Monitoring and Error Detection: According to the vendor, Dashbird automatically collects data from different sources in the cloud environment without the need for code level instrumentation or Lambda Layers. It aims to provide end-to-end visibility across the cloud infrastructure to help users respond to issues quickly and proactively address quality and performance problems.

Cloud Inventory: Dashbird provides a comprehensive view of the cloud inventory by tracking metrics, logs, and traces out-of-the-box. The vendor claims that it enables users to troubleshoot with one-click correlation and offers coverage for known and unknown failures.

Tracing: Dashbird offers tracing capabilities to monitor and analyze AWS Step Functions, API Gateway, and AWS Kinesis streams. The vendor states that it helps users identify bottlenecks, issues, and anomalies in their serverless applications.

Log Analytics: According to the vendor, Dashbird automatically streams logs from CloudWatch in real-time, providing a user-friendly query language and integration with dashboards. It aims to enable users to trigger alerts for custom log events and effectively manage their logs.

Custom Dashboards: Dashbird allows users to build custom visualizations and track events that are important to them. The vendor claims that it provides interactive dashboards for data visualization and monitoring.

Errors: Dashbird offers real-time error tracking, detecting errors, timeouts, cold starts, and anomalies from logs and metrics. According to the vendor, it allows users to set prebuilt and custom filters and checks to quickly identify and resolve issues.

Alarms: Dashbird provides critical metric alarms to monitor and alert on specific thresholds or conditions. The vendor suggests that it helps users identify performance bottlenecks and potential issues in real-time.

Insights: Dashbird features a library of over 150 cloud insights, offering actionable instructions to overcome challenges and improve infrastructure. According to the vendor, it provides alerts for critical insights and helps bridge the cloud knowledge gap.