Skylight
Skylight | Home Renovations | General Contractor.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
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| - | investor investor | €0.0 | round |
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| Total Funding | 000k | ||
Skylight offers a specialized application performance monitoring (APM) tool designed to diagnose and resolve performance issues for Ruby on Rails applications. The product is a creation of Tilde Inc., a software development consultancy founded by individuals with deep roots in prominent open-source communities, including Ruby on Rails and Ember.js. Their direct experience in building and maintaining complex web applications informed the development of Skylight, which was conceived as a more focused and streamlined alternative to comprehensive but complex APM solutions like New Relic.
The business operates on a subscription-based model, offering several pricing tiers determined by the volume of monthly traces, which include web requests and background jobs. This structure includes a free tier for up to 100,000 traces, making it accessible for developers and small-scale applications to utilize the service. The platform serves a clientele ranging from individual software developers and DevOps engineers to e-commerce and SaaS companies that rely on the Ruby on Rails framework.
Skylight's core service is a smart profiler that visualizes an application's performance data, turning it into actionable insights without requiring deep performance expertise from the user. A key feature is its ability to sort performance bottlenecks by "agony," a proprietary metric that combines response time with the frequency of an endpoint's use, helping developers prioritize the most impactful optimizations. The system automatically flags common issues such as N+1 database queries and excessive memory allocations. To ensure minimal impact on the production environment it monitors, Skylight employs a lightweight agent written in Rust and C, which is designed to consume minimal CPU and memory resources.
Keywords: Ruby on Rails, APM, application performance monitoring, Rails profiler, Tilde Inc, performance diagnostics, web application performance, DevOps tools, SaaS monitoring, code optimization, response time analysis, database query monitoring, endpoint monitoring, performance bottleneck, N+1 query problem, memory allocation, developer tools, New Relic alternative