Glowroot vs Failsafe Actuator

Glowroot

Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM (by glowroot)

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glowroot.org

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Failsafe Actuator

Endpoint library for the failsafe framework (by zalando)

Monitoring circuit-breaker Failsafe spring-boot Monitor

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Glowroot		Failsafe Actuator
	Project
5	Mentions	-
1,184	Stars	52
1.4%	Growth	-
8.7	Activity	0.0
12 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Glowroot

Posts with mentions or reviews of Glowroot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-28.

Glowroot - Open Source Java APM
1 project | /r/java | 3 Nov 2023
Open Source Java APM
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023
Splunk to Cut Workforce by 7% After Cisco Deal
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023

Java has an excellent one open source APM - https://glowroot.org/.
Python and other tools - not so much.
I wouldn't say Gartner created hype. Glowroot has been invaluable to us. Of course we run a massive footprint of 0.5m - 0.75m JVMs.
I'm looking for suggestions on improving the startup of a monolith project I work on
1 project | /r/SoftwareEngineering | 25 Jun 2023
Top 13 open source APM tools in 2021
14 projects | dev.to | 28 Jul 2021

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Failsafe Actuator

Posts with mentions or reviews of Failsafe Actuator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Failsafe Actuator yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Glowroot and Failsafe Actuator you can also consider the following projects:

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

JavaMelody - JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications

Pinpoint - APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems.

jmxtrans - jmxtrans

Stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring for java server applications

Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin

skywalking - APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

Automon - Automon combines the power of AOP (AspectJ) with monitoring or logging tools you already use to declaratively monitor your Java code, the JDK, and 3rd party libraries.

Metrics - :chart_with_upwards_trend: Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on.

Kamon - Distributed Tracing, Metrics and Context Propagation for applications running on the JVM