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Comparison

Lumigo vs Skylight

On the evidence we track, Skylight leads this comparison with a composite score of 59/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Lumigo full profile →Skylight full profile →
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Lumigo53
★Skylight59
Score
Vioscale score
Lumigo53 / 100medium · 73%
Skylight59 / 100low · 49%
Pricing
Free tier
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Model
Lumigofreemium
Skylightfreemium
Price level
Lumigolow
Skylightmid
Transparent
Lumigo✗
Skylight✓
Integrations
Count
Lumigo5
Skylight7
Security
Gdpr
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Hipaa
Lumigo✓
Skylight–
Soc2
Lumigo✓
Skylight–
Reliability
Status page
Lumigo✓
Skylight✓
Market
Availability

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
Lumigo-
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 is an AI-powered observability platform providing root cause analysis, distributed tracing, and log management for microservice environments across AWS, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry.

Independently observed

Skylight

Leader

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.

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

Leader
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✓
Self-hosted
Lumigo✓
Skylight✗

Integrations

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

Lumigo

5 total
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Serverless Framework
  • CircleCI
Independently observed

Skylight

Leader
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.