Akamai Cloud Longview vs Mackerel

Akamai Cloud Longview graphs system data and tracks CPU, memory, and network bandwidth at both aggregate and per-process levels. Its real-time graphs can help surface performance problems, and Cloud Manager displays Overview, Processes, Network, and Disks metrics. Optional tabs cover Apache, NGINX, and MySQL when the software and Longview Agent are configured. Getting started requires creating a client and installing its open-source agent on a Linux server; the agent can also be installed on Linux systems hosted outside Akamai Cloud. CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu are officially supported, and Akamai says most Linux systems are compatible. Longview is available on Linodes in core compute regions, not distributed compute regions. The Free plan costs nothing for up to 10 clients, with five-minute data resolution and 12 hours of history. Free and Pro clients cannot be used simultaneously. Longview does not collect swap disk data, and graphs show only data captured after agent installation.

Mackerel is a cloud-based SaaS service for monitoring servers and team-managed infrastructure. Installing its agent starts monitoring, after which hosts can be grouped into services and roles. It visualizes host metrics and user-defined service measures, including response time, sales and page views. Monitoring features include combining metrics, tracking predicted values and machine-learning anomaly detection. Cloud integrations cover Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud; a container agent treats Amazon ECS tasks and Kubernetes pods as hosts. Users can extend monitoring with open-source plugins, APIs and the mkr command-line tool. Customer Reliability Engineers can offer technical guidance on implementation and use, while standard-plan technical support is email-only. The free plan has five standard and micro hosts total, 500 metrics, one-day retention, 10 monitoring rules, one dashboard and up to 5M trace spans. A two-week trial includes Standard-plan functions and a 100M-span allowance. Standard host usage costs 2,180 yen, tax included, per host month.