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Comparison

Lumigo vs Skylight

No clear leader: Lumigo (55.3) and Skylight (53.9) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Lumigo55
Skylight54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Lumigo55 / 100medium · 73%
Skylight54 / 100low · 49%
Pricing
Free tier
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Model
Lumigofree
Skylightfree
Price level
Lumigofree
Skylightfree
Transparent
Lumigo✗
Skylight✗
Integrations
Count
Lumigo8
Skylight7
Security
Gdpr
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Hipaa
Lumigo✓
Skylight–
Soc2
Lumigo✓
Skylight–
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Lumigo6 items
Skylight7 items

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Distributed tracing
Lumigo✓
Skylight-
Insight
Service map
Lumigo✓
Skylight-
Code / continuous profiling
Lumigo-
Skylight✓
Database monitoring
Lumigo-
Skylight✓
Error analytics
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Real-user monitoring
Lumigo-
Skylight✗
SLO / error-budget tracking
Lumigo-
Skylight-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
LumigoOTel-native
Skylight-
Core
Language agents
LumigoPython, Node.js, Java, Go
SkylightRuby, Rails, Sinatra, Grape
Deployment
Hosting
LumigoCloud + self-hosted
SkylightCloud only

What each one is

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

Lumigo

Lumigo provides observability for cloud-native and serverless applications. It offers distributed tracing, automated error detection, real-time monitoring, and microservices insights to help developers quickly identify and resolve performance and reliability issues.

Independently observed

Skylight

A service that tracks how Ruby applications perform in production, showing developers where their code spends time and what changes affect response speeds, with tools to spot slow endpoints and prevent performance regressions.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Lumigo

from $119/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $99/mo (annual). Free tier with 150k traces/mo. 14-day free trial.

  • BasicFree
    • 150k Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 5GB/mo Logs
    • 3 Days Log Retention
    • 5GB/mo Metrics
    • +3 more
  • Standard$99/mo annual, $119/mo monthly
    • 1M Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 40GB/mo Logs
    • 7 Days Log Retention
    • 40GB/mo Metrics
    • +4 more
  • Plus$299/mo annual, $359/mo monthly
    • 5M Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 100GB/mo Logs
    • 30 Days Log Retention
    • 100GB/mo Metrics
    • +4 more
  • CustomContact sales
    • Custom Traces
    • Custom Trace Retention
    • Custom Log Volume
    • Custom Log Retention
    • Custom Metrics
    • +9 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
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓

Integrations

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

Lumigo

11 total
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Serverless Framework
  • CircleCI
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon ECS
  • AWS CDK
  • AWS CloudWatch
Independently observed

Skylight

9 total
  • Sidekiq
  • DelayedJob
  • ActiveJob
  • Sinatra
  • Grape
  • GraphQL
  • MCP
  • GitHub
  • Rails
Independently observed
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