Here’s how the extended features of OTel Prefix Premium deliver value far beyond the modest investment of $20/month (only $18/month with annual subscription)
| Capability / Feature | OTel Prefix Premium | Prefix - Community Edition (Free Forever) | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accept OpenTelemetry Traces & Logs with OTLP Http & gRpc Streams | Supports vendor-agnostic, OpenTelemetry tracing for comprehensive observability across user environments, new technologies, frameworks & architectures; improves troubleshooting & streamlines application development | ||
| View & Export any OpenTelemetry Properties Captured on Any Frame | View & easily share OTel-specific attributes within each trace | ||
| A Flame Graph on the Request View | Easily visualize what parts of a trace are taking the longest | ||
| View & Search a List of Logs in a Requests Window | Easily view & search logs within the context of each request for granular detail & improved troubleshooting | ||
| Operating System Support: Windows, Mac, Linux | Performs with the most popular operating systems used in developer workstations, providing flexibility for the developer | ||
| Development Language Support: .Net, .Net Core, Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, C++, Golang, Rust, Swift, Erlang, NestJS | Provides broad coverage to profile the most popular coding languages developers use worldwide | ||
| Profile Non-web Apps | Supports profiling of console applications, windows services, etc. on the developer's workstation, extending profiling beyond web dependencies | ||
| Custom Instrumentation | Extends the profiling capabilities to include methods, traces & functions not natively profiled by Prefix, for simplifying triage of critical applications | ||
| View & Search Requests | Simplifies searching for specific requests of interest by capturing & displaying a list of all requests from local applications | ||
| View & Search Logs | Consolidates & displays logs for easily searching files & quickly finding necessary information - key terms, log levels & data points | ||
| Cost | $20 per Month | FREE | Push 1 bug-free application into production faster with OTel Prefix, & it pays for itself many times over |
| View Historical Data | 7 days | 30 mins | Provides time-specific context to collected data to see precisely when issues happen & whether new code changes resolved previous problems |
| View Related Trace | Correlates requests, logs, errors & SQL queries in one trace breakdown, giving developers a complete picture of request performance from any tab view | ||
| Summary Dashboard & Insights | Helps efficiency & prioritizing efforts to optimize applications by consolidating summary information in a single dashboard displaying: Top Errors; Top Requests / Slowest Requests; Top SQL Queries / Slowest SQL Queries; Top Web External / Slowest Web External; Top Cache / Slowest Cache; Top Distributed Traces / Slowest Distributed Traces | ||
| Similar Requests | Easily compare instances of a request to expedite troubleshooting, verify code fixes & optimize request behavior | ||
| Smart Suggestions | Identifies areas in code that can be optimized based on industry best practices | ||
| Watch Additional Files | Extends functionality to frameworks & containers by enabling developers to simply add file locations for Prefix Premium to access, consolidate & display captured data | ||
| View Transactions Captured from Requests | Provides transaction tracing across microservices & containers in cloud-native applications | ||
| Share Prefix Traces | Enables flexibility & expedites the completion of work by simplifying collaboration with team members | ||
| Compare Production vs. Local | Provides integration with export data, open files & trace from Retrace to simplify the comparison of production applications to the local environment & determining if issues were fixed or a request optimized | ||
| View & Search Errors | Expedites problem identification & resolution by quickly finding & displaying specific errors in application code | ||
| View & Search Cache | Simplifies identification of specific cache data that may be causing bottlenecks by consolidating in a single tab cache information from in-memory data stores (Redis & memcached, for example) | ||
| View & Search External Web Requests | View & search external calls your application is using from either microservices or third-party companies | ||
| View & Search Queues | View & search queues that occur in a given request or during a given time period | ||
| View & Search SQL Queries | Simplifies searching for specific query information by capturing & displaying a list of all collected SQL queries from the application | ||
| Custom Thresholds | Inject untracked time blocks into traces when timing gaps exceed a customizable threshold | ||
| Dependency Dashboards | View a dashboard that lists all of the dependencies for a given host |
