Skylight

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free plan

Free plan

100,000 traces/mo

Open source

No

Self-hosted

No

Launched

2013

Status

Active

Website

skylight.io

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Tracing and APM checklist

2 of 10 confirmed in Skylight's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Tracing and APM.

• ? Distributed tracing Not confirmed
• ? OTLP traces ingest Not confirmed
• ? Service map Not confirmed
• + Auto-instrumentation Yes
• + Database query analysis Yes
• ? Error capture Not confirmed
• ? Latency and error alerts Not confirmed
• ? Trace to log correlation Not confirmed
• ? Sampling controls Not confirmed
• ? Code-level detail Not confirmed

Ruby/Rails profiler; homepage lists event timelines, SQL structuring, allocation hogs.

Checked against: skylight.io

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