Embrace User Session Insights vs Raygun Application Performance Monitoring

Embrace User Session Insights helps teams investigate mobile app issues by recreating user journeys with production data. Session timelines combine technical and behavioral details, including vitals, webviews, taps, network calls, crashes, and push notifications. Teams can search and filter event details in the User Timeline, which shows session duration and a technical summary, and segment sessions by device, location, OS version, or app version. For issues, errors, and crashes, user impact analysis provides a view across the user base. The product page describes sessions as unsampled and user data as compliant and anonymized. It runs in the cloud and supports Android, iOS, and web, with frontend monitoring, release tracking, source-map support, and session replay. Free includes up to 1 million sessions per year, up to five users, and three days of event data retention; ingestion stops when either cap is reached unless the customer upgrades. Pro costs 0.80 USD per 1,000 sessions with an 80 USD monthly minimum, and includes up to 10 users and 14 days of retention. A 30-day Pro trial is available. Enterprise has custom pricing and 30 days of retention.

Raygun Application Performance Monitoring (APM) monitors server-side performance and provides trend data, real-time performance information, and user-experience data. Request traces can be examined by method, request, query, and external API call, while expandable visual views help inspect asynchronous threads. Raygun can display source code from GitHub, Bitbucket, or Azure Repos. Its issue engine prioritizes performance issues and can send proactive notifications; sampling and code filtering help control noise and overhead costs. The cloud service supports transaction tracing, real user monitoring, Core Web Vitals, mobile app monitoring, interaction tracking, geographic breakdown, and error correlation, with data retention of 90+ days. APM documentation lists integrations for GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty, and Slack. Compatible environments include Node.js, Ruby, .NET, .NET Core, and Azure App Service; agent installation options are available for Windows and Linux. Raygun describes APM for customer-centric teams seeking improvements that affect end-user experience. The pricing note lists From $80/mo (annual), and a 14-day trial is available.