What is Blackfire APM?
Blackfire empowers all developers and IT/Ops to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance, throughout its lifecycle, by getting the right information at the right moment.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
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94 Plan to Renew
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81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+93 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love Blackfire APM?
Pros
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
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Transaction Request Performance
Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment
Dependency Tracking
Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)
Enterprise Cloud Platform Support
Scalability
Server Monitoring
Code Performance Monitoring
Non-Commodity Operating Systems
Application Discovery
Application Request Tracing
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Usability and Intuitiveness
Business Value Created
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Ease of Customization
Breadth of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Implementation
Blackfire APM Reviews
Rizwan A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2024
Optimising Performance with Precision and Power
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Blackfire APM from other similar products?
Blackfire provides continuous profiling, helping developers identify performance bottlenecks in real time. It includes performance testing features to verify code behavior and performance across different environments
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love Blackfire APM's integrated monitoring and profiling capabilities. This combination provides a comprehensive view of performance issues and real-time actionable insights. It goes beyond typical metrics to offer detailed, actionable reports with expert recommendations for optimization.
What do you dislike most about this product?
If I had to nitpick, I'd say Blackfire APM could benefit from a more intuitive user interface. While it's packed with features, it might feel a bit overwhelming for newcomers.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Determine if your primary focus is on performance profiling and optimization. Make the most of its integration with CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and regression prevention. Ensure your team is familiar with the interface and capabilities to fully leverage its potential.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Debojyoti m.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2024
Best for Performance testing with Robust API
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Blackfire APM from other similar products?
Blackfire APM offers a comprehensive solution for PHP performance monitoring and optimization, with a focus on deep integration, advanced profiling capabilities, continuous monitoring, collaboration features, scalability, and ease of integration. These factors collectively differentiate it from other similar products in the market.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
the continuous performance monitoring feature is often appreciated by users as it enables them to track performance trends over time and detect any performance regressions early on. This proactive approach to performance monitoring helps ensure that PHP applications remain optimized and performant even as they evolve over time.
What do you dislike most about this product?
while Blackfire APM offers valuable features for optimizing PHP application performance, users may encounter challenges related to cost, learning curve, language support, integration, and resource consumption. These factors should be considered when evaluating the suitability of Blackfire APM for specific projects or teams.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
To enhance various aspects like response time, throughput, and resource utilization, it is crucial to prioritize optimization efforts. Blackfire guarantees that performance optimization becomes an essential component of your development process. By consistently profiling and optimizing your code during the entire development lifecycle, you can effectively tackle performance concerns and avoid any negative impact on your users during production.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Bughtha Prakash R.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal
Submitted Apr 2024
Blackfire APM - Great tool for development team.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Blackfire APM from other similar products?
It provides great support regarding how code behaves and help developers to understand how they can change their coding to get what customer wants.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favourite aspect was ease of tool usage which helps developers to understand how they can evaluate their coding and change their code with respect to customer requirements.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to dislike.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would suggest others to definitely go for this tool as they provide great support to developers team.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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