Instrumental

Powerful full stack monitoring.

What do you like best? * Easy to implement. * Elegantly designed dashboards that allow you to monitor the health of your system in one simple view. * Instrument your application and display the new metric in minutes. * Powerful querying language. * Easily create alerts for system critical metrics. * Great RESTful API. * Clear documentation. What do you dislike? * Although you can quickly implement and display metrics. It takes a bit of dedication to harness its full ...

Great solution for custom instrumentation/metrics

What do you like best? Our application is instrumented with tens of thousands of custom metrics. Instrumental ingests and charts them all with ease! Our graphs are crucial to the daily operation of our service, and we've trusted them to Instrumental for years. Way more pleasant than Grafana. What do you dislike? Tons of custom metrics, with fast & easy graphing of same in up-to-the-minute dashboards. Could use a couple features, though the support is amazing and they're actively ...

Easy, Effective and Elegant

What do you like best? Easy to use and plug in new metrics - pretty nice grouping you can do on the app itself. Adding new metrics is just a line of code and a new graph. Also ease of grouping metrics by different time window is awesome feature. Time slicing ease is awesome to have. you could see the metrics way back in past without any hassle and wait time. What do you dislike? Never used pie charts but having an option to choose different type of graphs would be awesome to have. Not ...

Great Product

What do you like best? Instrumental has the ability to very quickly give me an overview of the health of my product. I can look at a few graphs and instantly know that everything is ok. Set up is incredibly easy. What do you dislike? As you zoom out your timeframe in view, you lose some granularity. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are a startup with real kitchens in multiple cities. At a glance I can check how those kitchens ...

Good software, good company

What do you like best? Instrumental is a very low-drama tool. It's focused on gathering metrics, making graphs and dashboards, and doing some simple alerting, and it does those things well. We use it to collect metrics at both the OS level and the application level. When all of that information is in the same system, it's far easier for us to correlate causes and effects in ways that would require multiple open tabs in other systems like New Relic. I hate "Contact sales for pricing" ...

Great help for great vlaue

What do you like best? It's hard to say. The customer support and hands-on approach to helping us get off the ground is hard to beat. At the same time, the price point for the software (_and_ having that support) blows competitors out of the water in our minds, too. I suppose the most succinct way to say it is that the value of the value-prop is the best we've seen for meeting our needs and have been thrilled in working with the Instrumental crew. What do you dislike? Not sure why G2 ...

Best of Breed

What do you like best? There are other services out there that do similar things, but Instrumental made gathering metrics and alerting on them so much easier than those. Our favorite tools are being able to graph across application statistics and then have alerts when metrics are below thresholds. What do you dislike? Anyone starting to use this tool should spend time up front mapping out how they think the metrics will be used and referenced. What problems are you solving with ...

Instrumental gives Sigstr confidence in delivering SaaS

What do you like best? Flexibility. Instrumental lets us track just about anything we'd want to across our applications, front and back-end alike: system performance, deployment cycles, customer behavior, proprietary metrics, you name it. The level of control over how all this data is visualized is outstanding. What do you dislike? There can be a bit of a learning curve with the query language. With so much flexibility it can take some consistent app usage to really get proficient ...

Amazing product delivers full system status at a glance

What do you like best? It is very easy to get everybody who needs access to it up and running at our company. We use Instrumental as a real time health dashboard of our physical locations as well as monitoring all aspects of our production system. I love the flexibility that it offers over other similar tools. I never worry about it not being available and it has been a very solid product. Instrumental is literally always up on a dashboard at our company, monitoring anything from ...

Instrumental gives me confidence in the health of the software I build

What do you like best? The flexibility! Instrumental gives you the ability to track pretty much anything your app can do: how often it happens, how long it takes, trends over time, with alerts when unexpected things happen. In addition to these custom metrics, the instrumental_agent library gives you a rock-solid foundation of commonly-used, actionable metrics right from the get-go. What do you dislike? While the core functionality of the Instrumental web app is extremely ...