Preview OpenTelemetry Ingestion in Prefix

Comprehensive, Vendor-Agnostic Observability
It’s easy to maximize app performance with your FREE preview trial of Prefix featuring OpenTelemetry. With the latest open-source observability protocol, OTel Prefix streamlines application development with universal telemetry data ingestion, unmatched observability and extended language support.

The Power of OTel for Developers

OTel Prefix puts the power of OpenTelemetry in the hands of developers, supercharging performance optimization for your entire DevOps team. With unmatched observability across user environments, new technologies, frameworks and architectures, OTel Prefix simplifies every step in code development, app creation and ongoing performance optimization for your apps and your team!

  • OpenTelemetry protocol extends Prefix stack support to 12 languages
  • Vendor-agnostic telemetry data ingestion supports universal log & trace streams from any application or OpenTelemetry collector
  • Extended tracing capabilities improves troubleshooting & shortens MTTR
  • Simplified applications instrumentation & extended language support shortens app development time
  • Improved real-time code profiling delivers better smart suggestions, logs, Summary Dashboards & all the user benefits of Prefix Premium

The Developer’s Sidekick

Tried & True, Real-Time Code Profiling & Tracing
Not quite ready for OpenTelemetry? More than 40,000 developers worldwide release optimized apps faster every day, leveraging the real-time feedback of our production version of Prefix. No wonder it’s called the Developer’s Sidekick. Start your free trial today!

Thousands of developers create great applications every day using Prefix.

The power of APM for developers

With Summary Dashboards, consolidated logs, distributed tracing, smart suggestions and the ability to jump from logs to traces (and back), Prefix puts powerful APM capabilities in the hands of developers. Prefix code profiling and tracing helps you optimize performance at the code level, so you release better code faster, every time, and your apps always deliver maximum performance.

For every developer on your team

Powerful yet easy to use, Prefix provides instant feedback on precisely what your code is doing, pinpointing issues in real time and delivering actionable insights for fast debugging. By validating the performance of code as it is written, Prefix helps you push better code to testing, receive fewer support tickets from production and improve the productivity of your entire development team, making you and your manager very happy!

Works with your stack

Developers create great apps with Prefix for macOS, Windows and Linux using the following languages:

View SQL Queries

Make your job easier by letting Prefix identify underperforming SQL queries, ORM generated queries and previously unknown bottlenecks. Tracking every SQL call parameter, affected record and download times, Prefix also makes it easy to spot and correct dreaded N+1 patterns.

Your new favorite log viewer

Stop sorting through messy log files. Prefix brings all of your logs together in a consolidated log viewer to quickly locate issues, explore the context of suspicious logs within each request and jump directly from a log into a trace for effortless debugging.

  • Structured logging
  • View logs by request
  • Search for specific terms
  • Export to csv

Distributed Tracing

Prefix ensures optimum application performance in cloud environments by blending distributed tracing with our powerful code profiling. Distributed tracing extends observability across cloud-native applications with multiple containers and microservices, helping developers optimize each transaction. Powerful code profiling helps all your applications deliver a great user experience, eliminating poor-performing dependencies and hidden exceptions with deep insights into…

  • Web services
  • Cache services
  • 3rd party services
  • Plus dozens of other dependencies

Here’s what Prefix users are saying

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Stackify solved the problem by having one centralized location to view log and error info… Without Retrace, we would have added 10s if not 100s of log statements in an effort to get some of the information that Retrace gave us with the push of a button.

Michael Paterson

Principle Software Engineer I Carbonite

My CEO loves that the dev team doesn’t have to do much digging to start fixing issues. Retrace has become my go-to portal for service health. Retrace allows us to get the business prepared for incoming support calls before they occur.

Daniel Taylor

CTO I Starkwood Media

Previously, if an error came up we would have to dig through log files on our servers. Retrace was able to provide us with a log and error monitoring system that could work seamlessly within our clients’ cloud servers and be remotely accessible by our team, something we haven’t found in any other tracking solution.

Alex Retzlaff

CEO I Fewzion

Besides helping diagnose issues that would have been impossible without Retrace, It has made discussions around existing production issues far easier. With actual stats to work with, Retrace has taken a large amount of guesswork out of the equation.

Matt Ross

Lead Developer I Newitts & Co.

Prefix allows us a quick view of how all of our web apis are behaving and if there any unexpected errors or performance issues we need to address. Using it in conjunction with Retrace provides even deeper insights without slowing down our production code.

Scott W.

By far one of the best and easiest to use profiling tools I've ever used. Most of the other tools are either too hard to setup or don't give me what I want. Prefix shows me exactly what I need to see on one screen, exceptions, SQL queries from EF, and load times. It has become a tool I use daily for software development.

John H.

I've been using Stackify's Prefix offering to help identify bottlenecks in both new and legacy websites. The ability to see SQL queries along with the various web requests is an absolute god send. When you find that request that should be using a cache but is smashing the database, those problems get solved so easily with Stackify.

Nikolas R.

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