Skylight vs StackStorm

Skylight

Skylight agent for Ruby (by skylightio)

Performance Monitoring

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skylight.io

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StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html (by StackStorm)

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Skylight		StackStorm
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3	Mentions	25
310	Stars	5,896
0.3%	Growth	0.9%
6.7	Activity	9.5
3 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Ruby	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Apache License 2.0

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Skylight

Posts with mentions or reviews of Skylight. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-08.

free-for.dev
67 projects | dev.to | 8 Nov 2022

skylight.io — Free for first 100,000 requests (Rails only)
Why Intuitive Troubleshooting Has Stopped Working for You
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2022

My turtle stack is pretty well documented and 95%+ of problems have already been solved by other people.
For everything else, I'm quite happy with https://sentry.io and https://www.skylight.io for my troubleshooting needs.
Top 16 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Solutions for 2021
1 project | dev.to | 15 Feb 2021

16. Skylight

StackStorm

Posts with mentions or reviews of StackStorm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-02.

Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
56 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2023
StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2023
Small app using a DB?
3 projects | /r/Database | 26 Jun 2023

Stackstorm
We built Activepieces to replace Zapier + learnings from last post
5 projects | /r/opensource | 25 Jan 2023

What differentiates this from things like n8n, node red, and stackstorm? (which sort of occupy a zapier replacement, IoT automation, and infra automation niche, respectively)
SRE: What tool do you use for Incident Response Runbook/Playbook
3 projects | /r/devops | 1 Jan 2023
IT Capstone Project Ideas
1 project | /r/networking | 29 Nov 2022

Network Automation is interesting topic, something like event driven automation would be cool. StackStorm is what comes to mind for a tool/resource.
Hacker News top posts: Nov 24, 2022
3 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 24 Nov 2022

StackStorm: Event-driven automation\ (17 comments)
StackStorm (a.k.a. “IFTTT for Ops”) is event-driven automation
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 24 Nov 2022

3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2022
What Open Source Projects Do You Use In Your District?
27 projects | /r/k12sysadmin | 16 Nov 2022

StackStorm -- "IFTTT For Ops" I am investigating the different integrations to see if it can help automate some things.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Skylight and StackStorm you can also consider the following projects:

New Relic - New Relic RPM Ruby Agent

Rundeck - Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts

Yabeda::Prometheus::Mmap - Yabeda Prometheus exporter based on prometheus-client-mmap

n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.

Rails Performance - Monitor performance of you Rails applications (self-hosted and free)

argo - Workflow Engine for Kubernetes

ezmetrics - Simple, lightweight and fast metrics aggregation for Rails.

Node RED - Low-code programming for event-driven applications

RorVsWild - Performances & exceptions monitoring for Ruby on Rails applications

Huginn - Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

TraceView - The TraceView Ruby Instrumentation Gem

SaltStack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here: