Below is a list of some of our opinions on the differences between Prefix and Glimpse. They both have some pros and cons and help solve similar problems. We think Glimpse is awesome and you can actually use both tools together if you like. Prefix Glimpse Price FREE FREE Project origin Based on Stackify’s APM technology Open source community project …
Release Notes: February 2016
Along with a number of internal bug fixes and improvements, our latest release includes a few changes around SLA reporting for Web Apps and some custom dashboard improvements around configuring widgets. Satisfaction Score Reporting For improved SLA reporting, Satisfaction scores now report 3 decimal points so you can have better insight into the availability of your web apps for reporting …
Custom Metrics: Configure for .NET
Below will outline the process of monitoring custom metrics from your .NET apps in Stackify. Getting the Metrics API Using NuGet Using NuGet from Visual Studio, it’s easy to add the Stackify API for Custom Metrics. If you just want Metrics, you can download the Stackify API. If you are integrating Stackify’s Error or Logging Appender into your project as …
Custom Profiling: Configure for .NET
By default, the Retrace .NET APM+ Profiler only instruments key, pre-defined events in the IIS pipeline and page life cycle. One of the key benefits of the profiler is that you may instrument tracing of how long any .NET method takes to execute and include that output in the call stack. In deciding what to profile, keep in mind the …
HTTP Proxies: Configure
If you have a network architecture that requires internet traffic to flow through a proxy server, this guide will help you ensure that Retrace can communicate out through your proxy server seamlessly. Before you proceed through these steps, you need to ensure that YUM or APT are configured to use the proxy as the Stackify Linux Agent installer will use …
Custom Metrics: Overview
Using the Stackify Custom Metrics API, you can easily report, log, and monitor any number of custom metrics, business KPIs, and other important business or application events that could provide insights into application or user behavior. With Stackify, you can monitor, trend, and setup alerts for these important events, making them an actionable part of your overall application health picture. …
FAQ: How Do Custom Date Ranges Work?
With custom date ranges, you can quickly view trend details of a monitor within a specified custom range. Along with viewing monitors, the custom date ranges also applies to web logs, alerts, and error data. Select the Trend First, find a trend in the dashboard and select custom range. Note: Stackify will keep all summary data (alerts, monitoring, web log, …
Custom Dashboard: Overview
Custom Dashboards (beta) give you the ability to add and arrange a number of widgets and monitors ranging from Error and Log monitors to Active alerts, and everything in between. Below will provide an overview of the process of creating a new dashboard, adding widgets to the dashboard, and some different options and settings for the custom dashboards. To view …