Comments on “Trace
Gergely Nemeth@nthgergo · CEO of RisingStack
Hey, Product Hunters! Trace by RisingStack is a cloud-based performance monitoring tool which makes Node.js development and debugging easier thanks to its’ error detection, performance monitoring, service mapping, and distributed tracing features. Trace provides: - A distributed stack trace view for all of your transactions, with error details - Service m… See more
Pelle Almquist@peralmq · Backend, Clue
@nthgergo Hi, Trace looks very cool, thanks for making it! Would you mind telling me how it differs from Opbeat's Node.js services?
Gergely Nemeth@nthgergo · CEO of RisingStack
@peralmq Hey Pelle, sure! The biggest difference is that Trace was built with microservices and Node.js in mind in the first place. It understands the infrastructure as a whole, with external dependencies and cross-service calls (distributed tracing) - unlike, as far as I understand, Opbeat works only within the service boundaries. Trace also provides a Top… See more
Gergely Nemeth@nthgergo · CEO of RisingStack
@peralmq one more thing I'd add: Google has been monitoring their services for years based on the Google Dapper concept http://research.google.com/pubs/... Trace makes Dapper available for everyone as a SaaS product. It doesn’t matter that your applications use PaaS (like Heroku) or IaaS (like AWS). The idea of building Trace comes from our experience in c… See more