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Comparison

Kamon vs Skylight

No leader: the top candidate Kamon has only 0.21 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Kamon full profile →Skylight full profile →
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Kamon60
Skylight59
Score
Vioscale score
Kamon60 / 100low · 21%
Skylight59 / 100low · 49%
Pricing
Free tier
Kamon✓
Skylight✓
Model
Kamonfreemium
Skylightfreemium
Price level
Kamonhigh
Skylightmid
Transparent
Kamon✓
Skylight✓
Integrations
Count
Kamon10
Skylight7
Security
Gdpr
Kamon✓
Skylight✓
Reliability
Status page
Kamon–
Skylight✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for apm tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Kamon✓
Skylight✓
Distributed tracing
Kamon✓
Skylight-
Insight
Service map
Kamon✓
Skylight-
Code / continuous profiling
Kamon✗
Skylight✓
Database monitoring
Kamon✓
Skylight✓
Error analytics
Kamon✗
Skylight✓
Real-user monitoring
Kamon✗
Skylight✗
SLO / error-budget tracking
Kamon✗
Skylight-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Kamon✗
Skylight✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Kamon-
Skylight-
Core
Language agents
KamonScala, Akka, Play Framework, Cats Effect, Akka HTTP, Lagom
SkylightRuby, Rails, Sinatra, Grape
Deployment
Hosting
KamonCloud only
SkylightCloud only

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Kamon

Application performance monitoring platform providing metrics and distributed tracing for backend services. Supports open-source Kamon Telemetry instrumentation and integrates with Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

Independently observed

Skylight

Skylight visualizes performance data to help identify and fix bottlenecks in Ruby and Rails apps. It includes endpoint analysis, SQL profiling, deploy tracking, and background job monitoring.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Kamon

from $89/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $89/mo. Free tier includes 5K metrics and 10M spans/month. Fixed subscription with transparent add-ons, no surprise overage charges.

  • StarterFree
    • High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
    • End-to-end distributed tracing
    • Service map with dependencies and realtime status
    • Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
    • Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
    • +4 more
  • Teams$89/mo - 10K metrics, 100M spans/mo, 20 team members
    • High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
    • End-to-end distributed tracing
    • Service map with dependencies and realtime status
    • Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
    • Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
    • +7 more
  • Business$299/mo - 30K metrics, 500M spans/mo, 50 team members
    • High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
    • End-to-end distributed tracing
    • Service map with dependencies and realtime status
    • Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
    • Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
    • +7 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Custom metrics capacity
    • Custom span limits
    • Custom data retention
    • Dedicated support
    • Volume discounts
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Skylight

from $20/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with 100,000 monthly traces; paid tiers starting at $20/month

  • FreeFree
  • Pay-as-you-goStarting at $20/month
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Kamon✓
Skylight✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Kamon✓
Skylight✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Kamon

10 total
  • Prometheus
  • Jaeger
  • Datadog
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • Akka
  • Play Framework
  • Cats Effect
  • Lagom Framework
  • Akka HTTP
Independently observed

Skylight

7 total
  • Sidekiq
  • DelayedJob
  • ActiveJob
  • Sinatra
  • Grape
  • GraphQL
  • MCP
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.

Kamon vs Skylight: an evidence-based comparison · Vioscale