SpeedCurve: best in class performance continuous monitoring
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The tooling it provides is great for performance investigation.
We monitor our websites and get valuable insight on performance related topics.
Speed curve helps us detect issues, investigate their cause, and isolate effects or metrics to detect changes immediately.
Most critical is that the data is available forever, so it's possible to investigate effects that were recorded even before the hypothesis appears.
We monitor our websites and get valuable insight on performance related topics.
Speed curve helps us detect issues, investigate their cause, and isolate effects or metrics to detect changes immediately.
Most critical is that the data is available forever, so it's possible to investigate effects that were recorded even before the hypothesis appears.
Pros
- Store performance checks
- User interface is great to help analyse the data
- Simple yet effective interface
- Offer some insights and other tools to help make sense of the data
Cons
- The interface has some confusing points, for instance aggregation setting (percentiles, median) is misleading, and doesn't do anything in some cases
- Some additional statistical tools would super charge the charts and alerts: moving average, some more useful trend lines
- The performance charts are amazing to compare many values (from different pages, multiple metrics) and find correlations. But the charts are barely usable when many metrics are shown (one cannot tell a line from the other). A simple UI improvement there could supercharge this use case
Most Important Features
- Automated performance tests
- Permanent storage of the performance tests
- Good charts for analysing the data
Return on Investment
- Speedcurve facilitates and empowers performance improvements that lead the higher conversion rates, user engagement and ultimately GMV
- Through it's interface and automation, Speed curve saves hundreds of hours in investigations around performance issues
- By facilitating performance analysis and knowledge sharing, SpeedCurve allows our teams to be more performance-aware, preventing performance issues from even happening
Alternatives Considered
New Relic
Other Software Used
Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager, New Relic