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AppSignal Reviews & Product Details

AppSignal is an all-in-one application performance monitoring (APM) solution trusted by developers since 2012. AppSignal offers amazing support for Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, Python, and Front-end JavaScript applications. AppSignal seamlessly integrates into development workflows. It helps optimize app performance, detect and resolve issues faster, and gain real-time insights across the entire stack. AppSignal is built for teams of all sizes, from start-ups to enterprises, with scalable, predictable pricing and powerful monitoring features. AppSignal's focus on simplicity and reliability empowers teams to focus on deploying high-quality code fast. AppSignal's core features include: - Error Tracking: Monitor and track errors across deployments with instant notifications for faster issue resolution. - Performance Monitoring: Identify performance bottlenecks and inefficient functions to optimize app speed and user experience. - Host Monitoring: Get detailed metrics on CPU, disk space, network usage, and more to keep servers running smoothly. - Anomaly Detection: Receive real-time alerts for unusual behavior like memory surges or increased error rates. - Uptime Monitoring: Stay informed with minute-by-minute availability checks so you know when downtime occurs. - Check-ins: Track the health of background tasks like cron jobs and scheduled processes to ensure reliability. - Metric Dashboards: Automatically generated, customizable dashboards for key metrics across supported frameworks. - Log Management: Seamlessly manage logs, easily switching between log lines, performance samples, and error reports. Based in the Netherlands, AppSignal's small but dedicated remote team works from countries across the globe. AppSignal is committed to delivering the best monitoring experience for developers with amazing free developer-to-developer support, ensuring all customers get the most out of their monitoring experience. AppSignal offers transparent pricing, no hidden fees, no overages, and access to all features on every plan. Starting at just $23 per month, with flexible upgrade policies, AppSignal allows teams to scale monitoring needs as they grow without worrying about bill shock. AppSignal offers a 30-day free trial (no credit card required), allowing you to explore all its features and discover how it can enhance your app's performance.

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AppSignal B.V.

Languages Supported

English

Product Description

AppSignal is a real-time APM provider for Ruby, Rails, Elixir & Phoenix. AppSignal offers insights into errors and performance issues, plus host monitoring and an easy-to-use custom metrics platform.

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Thijs Cadier

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AppSignal's request based pricing

Starting at $23.00

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Metric dashboards provide a clear, unified view of all your core metrics. AppSignal automatically creates curated dashboards for supported frameworks, eliminating guesswork and streamlining your monitoring setup.

When investigating performance issues, AppSignal simplifies the process by providing clear visual breakdowns, detailed tags, and accessible performance trends, all in one place.

ChatGPT said: AppSignal's event timeline helps you pinpoint where your code spends the most time, even highlighting N+1 queries, enabling you to optimize with precision.

In AppSignal, you can trigger alerts if your logs contain specific attributes, as an extra layer of deep observability.

With Check-ins, you can effortlessly monitor background tasks, cron jobs, and continuous processes, ensuring no failures go unnoticed.

Monitor essential host metrics such as CPU, memory, and load average with AppSignal, ensuring complete observability across your entire stack.

AppSignal Reviews (16)

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Matteo G.

Tech support

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/15/2024

"Logging analysis for our Rails app"

5/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

We are able to maintain graphs, dashboards and statistics under control in an easy an seamless way.

We can better analyze performance problems, track down where issues arise all within a tool.

We have easily integrated AppSignal with our Rails application and since then we are constantly using the tool to track down metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

I cannot complain about AppSignal, possibly the problem is with us that we still need to add more integrations, for example with error reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tyler B.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/18/2024

"The best APM for Elixir Phoenix applications"

5/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

AppSignal is easily the most easily integrated APM I've used for Elixir + Phoenix. A lot is set up for you by just integrating the libraries. In particular, the logging integration keeps everything in one place which I really appreciate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

I only wish they supported a few more languages - mainly Rust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tomáš K.

Co-founder, Software engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/20/2024

"Valuable tool for our Ruby on Rails application"

5/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

It provides all the important tools for monitoring our application. It's really simple to implement it and with AppSignal we are able with ease diagnose any potential issues with our application and keep it running without any problems. They keep improving their services and customer support is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

There is nothing to dislike. It's working as we expected. If there are some questions, we can rely on customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohana R.

Senior Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/18/2022

"APM solutions offered by AppSignal is excellent for monitoring our RNF application performance issue"

4/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

Appsignal provides an user-friendly console that is easy to comprehend and obtain all information to perform RCA in various environments. With a single-agent installation, we can conveniently monitor our production deployments for our customers. Automatic resource discovery, connectivity rate handling and baseline comparisons are best while using Appsignal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

Its ignore action settings need to be configured carefully since Appsignal will filter all actions in this particular list so that it doesn't get data into Appsignal servers. Enabling it will also not count towards our billing plan so it needs to be handled properly. It isn't a downside but an important consideration which we follow for monitoring our application's performance in Appsignal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppSignal solving and how is that benefiting you?

The major benefit of using Appsignal is its deep dive monitoring capabilities for our customer transaction records so that we can easily carry on with our RCA in case of issues. It effectively captures & aggregates the usage metrics and helps us identify various bottlenecks that are essential for refactoring & reverting changes. We drill down to analyze path issues in application services, database SQL queries and to prevent memory over-utilization/under-utilization. The standalone agent offered by Appsignal is efficient to detect anomalies and carry out uptime monitoring throughout our application runtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yuriy D.

Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/1/2022

"Helpful tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

Nice communication, good Elixir support, nonintrusive for the application logic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

A bit magicky as to what is going on under the hood, not very transparent when extra logic is required (we send error level logs to AppSignal). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kenny E.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/12/2020

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"Fantastic APM"

5/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

AppSignal has a lot of options for customizing the data captured but it captures a lot of useful info 'out of the box' too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

I don't dislike anything. There are some minor 'missing' features available in similar solutions tho. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thimo J.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/4/2020

"AppSignal instrumental to scaling our app"

5/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

Adding AppSignal to our app has been crucial in getting it to scale to the level we grew to at the end of the Covid19 lockdown. Because we had to add reservations and checkins/-outs our traffic would increase at least 10-fold. With the help of error logs in AppSignal and detailed graphs of the performance of various parts of our app we were able to remove bottlenecks and end up with a reliable service.

Next to this a couple of things where AppSignal stands out:

- second to none support. It's their developers themselves show are quickly and clearly answering any questions you may have. It's hard to overstate how nice this is

- great documentation

- friendly, speedy and beautiful user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

The only thing I'm missing at the moment is a (free) plan to use AppSignal on open source / hobby projects that don't make money. Can't blame AppSignal for this, but it would be nice to have this option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/3/2021

"One single platform to manage everything you want in your infrastructure"

4/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

Anamoly detection and host usage features are my favorites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

I felt the User Interface sucks. The screens are overwhelmed with all the options and functionalities stuffed at one single place making it difficult to identify which is where. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raimonds S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/15/2020

"Great monitoring tool for Ruby on Rails applications"

5/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

AppSignal is very easy to add to your Ruby on Rails applications and out-of-the-box it provides many meaningful metrics both for web requests as well as background jobs. Later we also added several custom events specific to our application and it was quite easy. We also like that it supports JRuby which we use (as some monitoring tools only support MRI implementation of Ruby).

Previously we used New Relic and comparing to that AppSignal was easier to use as well as the AppSignal pricing model is much better compared to New Relic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

So far we have not had any problems with the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AppSignal:

As it is very easy to add to your Ruby on Rails application then start a trial and see if it provides valuable information out-of-the-box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AppSignal solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are monitoring the overall throughput of our application (to identify any strange behavior). We have used it to profile specific web requests and improve performance of them (we noticed several slow actions that we didn't know previously). We log unexpected errors and AppSignal provides good way to see individual cases of these errors with corresponding stack traces. It helps to quickly identify if there are any unexpected errors after each deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

George C.

Innovator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/30/2020

"They Value Customer Satisfaction Over Greed"

5/5

What do you like best about AppSignal?

Besides the inherent value they provide, I just want to share a quick scenario.

We hired a developer that signed us up for all of these Softwares over a year ago and I thought I had canceled all of them but this past year has been a crazy journey (like I sure so many can relate) and I didn't realize we had not canceled with AppSignal.

I'm embarrassed to say that I had only recently due to Taxes and COVID taken the time to catch up on balancing our CC transactions... then realized, after asking the team about AppSignal that no one was using it... Anyways, I reached out to AppSignal and explained our scenario and how we hadn't been using the service for quite some time and Stefan decided to respond and said:

"Hi George,

that sucks! As if these times aren't hard enough!

It looks like you have monitoring requests with us almost until the end of last year.

To help you out in these hard times, I have refunded the last 6 month of your subscription.

(These will show up in a few days after they are processed by your credit card company).

I hope you will stay healthy and bounce back after all this. Thanks for being a customer.

Stefan."

Thought I would share since not many companies I've had such a great experience with... GoDaddy HA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AppSignal?

It was nice when we did use it for a short time to get notifications that things were off and I could reach out to the developer and see what the status was. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.