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Skylight

A smart profiler for Ruby and Rails applications that turns performance data into insights

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Skylight is a performance monitoring tool specifically for Ruby and Rails applications. It uses a lightweight agent written in Rust to collect data and provides a dashboard that highlights the most impactful endpoints to optimize, tracks deploys, and offers weekly trend reports.

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    Covers 3 of 15 key features.

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    Covers 1 of 15 key features.

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    Covers 2 of 15 key features and starts cheaper.

    57 out of 100 match$5/mo
  9. Real-time infrastructure monitoring with per-second metrics, ML anomaly detection and AI‑d

    Covers 4 of 15 key features, starts cheaper and is open source.

    Free planOpen source
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    Covers 5 of 15 key features and starts cheaper.

    Free plan
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    Covers 5 of 15 key features and is open source.

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