Hi All. I’ve been tasked to investigate the best...

# android

[Kev Thompson]

Hi All. I’ve been tasked to investigate the best monitoring tools for Mobile Monitoring.

Price isn’t a blocker, we’re just looking for the best of the best when it comes to app performance monitoring ( HTTP traffic, screen views including time on screen etc, button clicks, crashes, basically any and all metrics you can think of 🙂

Any suggestions for what people use? Would need to be good at handling multiple module’s.

[Jakub Syty]

Sentry i think is what are you looking for. But AFAIK DataDog has a nice offering too

[Jakub Syty]

Multiple modules handing isn't really a concern for the libraries, it's more for you. You have to integrate those libraries to your code 🙂

[Jakub Syty]

We were using DataDog on our full stack monitoring, which worked great. You can add a interceptor to the OkHttp client and you can trace all request from the mobile phone up to the database on the backend

[Kev Thompson]

Excellent thanks, will take a look

[Kev Thompson]

Reason I mentioned Multi modules was that we have had issues with one of our trackers that is a plugin level SDK and adds its own code at build time and its missing in some modules. other tracker tools we have used ( New Relic ) worked out of the box.

[Jakub Syty]

yea, i hate those. I always prefer the explicit setup over some magic behind the curtains

[romtsn]

sentry also does "magic" fwiw, but you can disable it 🙂

[Jakub Syty]

Yup, in sentry you can choose implicit or explicit setup, that's just fine with me 😄

[Kev Thompson]

the amount of issues we have had with 2 voodoo set up SDK’s conflicting is scary.

[Kev Thompson]

Thanks both, I’ll take a look at these 🙂

[Mitch Ware]

BugSnag is pretty fantastic; can't say enough good things about their main product. No frills solid product, open SDK, responsive support team. I feel overwhelmed when trying to integrate and understand DataDog's offerings (feels like they do 10 things @ 10% instead of 1 thing @ 100%).

BugSnag also has a performance monitoring tool (in private beta) that does more of the network/screen view/custom span tracing type stuff that is equally fantastic.

[Jakub Syty]

AFAIK BugSnag in it's current form for android is only a crash monitoring tool. So it doesn't really work for the OP who is looking for whole monitoring package

[John Matthews]

Firebase Performance Monitoring. It has all that and tied in with analytics you can do many things. https://firebase.google.com/docs/perf-mon?hl=en&authuser=0&_gl=1*1n49hm7*_ga*MTEzMzIxM[…]_ga_CW55HF8NVT*MTY4OTYwMzc2Ny4xMDAuMS4xNjg5NjAzNzY5LjAuMC4w

[romtsn]

but none of them have profiling in production like sentry 😉 and jetpack compose support for performance