Blackfire.io vs Dashbird: What are the differences?

Blackfire.io: Blackfire Profiler automatically instruments your code to gather data about consumed server resources like memory, CPU time, and I/O. Blackfire achieves a new level of accuracy by aggregating several profile samples and getting rid of non relevant data. Get even deeper and review the interactions with your entire stack (SQL database engines, cache servers, ...); Dashbird: Monitoring and troubleshooting for serverless applications. Dashbird gives full visibility into serverless architectures. Failure detection, monitoring and debugging capabilities for AWS Lambda and event sources. Get up and running in 5 minutes without any performance overhead or code changes.

Blackfire.io and Dashbird can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Blackfire.io are:

• Profile a page at a mouse click thanks to the Blackfire web browser extension
• Browse through the function calls and identify performance bottlenecks thanks to the Blackfire intuitive UI
• Because Blackfire is only triggered when you profile a request, there is no overhead for other requests

On the other hand, Dashbird provides the following key features:

• Monitoring
• Alerting
• Full text search