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Blackfire

Blackfire APM

Composite Score

7.5 /10

CX Score

7.9 /10

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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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Blackfire APM Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Blackfire APM?

6% Negative

1% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Acts with Integrity
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

Feature Ratings

Average 79

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

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 78

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

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

Stinah V.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

Quality Application Navigation Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Blackfire APM from other similar products?

Blackfire APM ensure the many systems or programs that firms own are effective and reliable

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Blackfire APM is well encrypted to ensure security is to notch.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Blackfire APM defines the requirements of every software for perfect performance.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Blackfire APM is universal in enhancing proper and quality application performance.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Abdulloh C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

a lot of features. Reasonable pricing. big print

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Blackfire APM from other similar products?

The feature offered is wide. Have a lot of out of the box ready to use features without the need of many customization too. Easy to implement and track. Setup on new server is easy.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Code performance report and tracking perform wonder. We can monitor our system closer to the code itself and have good transparency in what going behing the line.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The footprint on each request is more significant than competitors. After doing PoC for a good month we decided to choose other with smaller footprint because we don't want to use higher tier instance.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If the memory usage and footprint still commendable for you this tool is great. I will get back to try blackfire again when the footprint getting smaller later down the months.

Pros

Respectful
Acts with Integrity
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

Cons

Commodity Features
Under Delivered

How We Deliver

Blackfire APM

What is Blackfire APM?

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Blackfire APM Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Blackfire APM?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Transaction Request Performance Tracking the performance of all web and other transactions within your system.

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment Supports one or many deployment models - On-prem, cloud or hybrid hosting of the database system.

Dependency Tracking Tracking the performance of all application dependencies.

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM) Synthetic front-end monitoring simulates user interactions with online applications, including fully scripted transactions.

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support Monitoring capabilities for cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure ServiceFabric.

Scalability Scalability refers to the transaction size per second / time taken to put a transaction in the block and the time taken to reach a consensus.

Server Monitoring Monitor usage and performance of all application dependencies like databases, servers, containers, web services, caching, etc.

Code Performance Monitoring Tracking application performance at the code-base level.

Non-Commodity Operating Systems Non-Commodity Operating Systems capabilities such as AIX, z/OS, Solaris, IBM i, and z/Linux.

Application Discovery Automated discovery of web servers, application servers, and micro-services, application frameworks, and platforms.

Application Request Tracing Detail key attributes of application requests and transactions.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Blackfire APM Reviews

Stinah V.

Quality Application Navigation Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Abdulloh C.

a lot of features. Reasonable pricing. big print

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

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

Vendor Capability Ratings

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

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