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Elastic enters Application Performance Management space with Opbeat acquisition

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OpBeat was the annoying company that transitioned my unused beta account to a paying account upon launch without authorization and without me entering in my payment details. I only realized this once they started emailing me that I had racked up a bunch of charges on OpBeat and that I needed to pay these bills immediately. Apparently if you signed up for the beta you had to explicitly op-out of being charged upon launch and I never returned to the OpBeat site after briefly trying the beta, so I hadn't opted out. Hmm....

I'm using Opbeat everyday at work and it is a very nice platform. But since there seems to be an Opbeat employee here I thought I would write down a couple of suggestions.

1) Please add the ability to search for errors. Having to scroll through the pages when finding some old error is quite annoying. Or trying to find all errors with a specific exception.

2) More notification settings in the Android app. I would like to be able to change the notification sound and disable vibration. Right now I have worked around this by disabling notifications in the app and assigning label in Gmail to Opbeat email notifications and setting custom notification settings for this label.

3) It would be great to see the "Misc." and "Extra" tabs in addition to the stacktrace in the Android app. We include some useful information about the errors in the extra section and it would be helpful to take a look at them right in the app.

Hi tophattom, I'm happy that you like our platform, and thanks for your feedback :)

1) With the new version of Opbeat which will be based on Elasticsearch, you have the ability to perform any custom query you like. That should hopefully take care of that part

2+3) I'm not 100% sure what the app development plan is. But I'll make sure to tell the right people :)

Elastic could acquire a better support for their "cloud" offering. That would be nice. 48h on a critical ticket, still no intervention. Luckily, it's only the production cluster.

It was interesting to see Opbeat pivot from a specifically Python/Django APM platform, to one so heavily focused on JavaScript.

We still support Python, but our marketing have been 100% focused on JavaScript, so it can seem like we don't care about it. Now that we're joining Elastic we'll get more resources to support even more languages :)

I always wanted to try them but moved away from Python/Django and kind of forgot about them. Nice to see they have evolved. Love their design.

Though our current marketing doesn't mention Python, we still support it. And plan to add new languages in the future as well.

Congrats, we are very happy users of Opbeat at Ionic

First I've heard of Opbeat - it looks beautiful and functional. A great pairing.

I'd love to try them out, but it seems like no one gives PHP any love any more so it's not possible :(

I think there's actually some pretty decent PHP monitoring love these days!

1. A little plug for TraceView, a PHP performance monitoring and distributed tracing product. Not only insight as to what your PHP code is doing, but also what external services it is interacting with, which ones are slow, and (if they're other services you run) end-to-end traces between them (including software written in 7 other languages). (https://traceview.solarwinds.com)

2. New Relic offers a PHP solution, which is a bit pricier but also folds into their ever-growing suite of products. https://newrelic.com

3. Tideways is pretty cool as well (someone mentioned that already) and it supports HHVM. https://tideways.io

4. If you're looking for just profiling, there's https://blackfire.io, though I don't know much about it.

5. AppDynamics has a PHP monitoring product but I can't recommend it unless you are looking for on-prem hosted solution.

And there's probably several more...

One of our users open sourced a PHP integration he made to our API. But it only supports error monitoring unfortunately. Not our performance monitoring: https://opbeat.com/docs/articles/error-logging-in-php/

you might want to checkout out Tideways, the pure PHP APM I have built over the last 3 years: https://tideways.io/

We have curated in-depth support for many PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, CakePHP, ZendFramework, Magento, Wordpress, and many more...

What's gonna happen to the Opbeat Heroku Add-On?

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