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Blackfire

Crush performance bottlenecks with continuous observability for PHP and Python

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Blackfire is an application performance monitoring and profiling platform for PHP and Python applications. It combines live monitoring, deterministic profiling, performance testing, alerting, and recommendations to help developers find and fix performance issues before they reach production.

Key capabilities include Monitoring, Profiling, Testing, Alerting, Recommendations, CI/CD integration, Browser Monitoring, and Analytics. Blackfire supports PHP, Python, Golang, Node.JS, Ruby, Rust, and Java with varying feature availability across languages. It integrates with hosting providers, configuration management tools like Docker, git repository management, continuous integration platforms, and instant messaging services. The platform also offers Security, Quality, and Debug add-ons, an SDK, and a Probe Control API.

Blackfire is designed for development teams working with decoupled PHP and Python applications across development, testing, staging, and production environments. It is packaged with usage-based pricing on monthly or yearly subscriptions, with all features included.

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