APM for Play Framework

[Naveen Gupta]

Hi,

I am running few Play (v 2.5.x) based application on production and would like to install an APM to track performance. 

I have following APM shortlisted 

1. NewRelic - Supports Play framework but is costly for my specific case 
   
2. AppDynamics - Supports Play framework but is costly
3. DripStat - Does not supports latest version of Play Framework. I like the cost for this product though, 
4. Stackify - Does not support Play Framework. Low cost provider though. 

Can you please share any other provider which I can explore. I am open to self-hosted/open source platform if they are specific only to Java/Scala apps and support Play !

[Igmar Palsenberg]

We use Kamon to do the actual data aggregation. Kamon itself is open source, and can send data to statsd / New Relic / Datadog / <insert more>.

We used to go with commercial parties, but have backed out on that : It blocks going along with Play releases (to indicate : 2.4 -> 2.5 too New Relic 8 months).

The only downside : Grafana dashboards are a PITA, especially when using cloud providers on autoscaling groups.

Igmar

 

[Naveen Gupta]

I agree with issues around other providers for every major release. I know of atleast 3-4 providers who support Play! 2.3/2.2 but not latest ones. Probably does not make commercial sense to them. 

Kamon looks pretty slick. Do you recommend any backend provider with it. I can see it supports DataDog, NewRelic and few others out of the box. 

[Igmar Palsenberg]

 

I agree with issues around other providers for every major release. I know of atleast 3-4 providers who support Play! 2.3/2.2 but not latest ones. Probably does not make commercial sense to them. 

Kamon looks pretty slick. Do you recommend any backend provider with it. I can see it supports DataDog, NewRelic and few others out of the box. 

I'm about to go with Kamon + InfluxDB + Grafana.

Igmar