Why is Site24x7 a better alternative to Google Firebase?
A comprehensive monitoring solution for all your IT needs
Site24x7 offers a full-stack monitoring solution that delivers comprehensive visibility into your mobile app’s performance, covering everything from backend services and server health to API response times. In contrast, Google Firebase is primarily a development platform for mobile and web apps. While it includes basic monitoring for Firebase-built apps, Google Firebase lacks the comprehensive coverage needed for external applications, requiring additional tools to ensure optimal performance.
Make data-driven improvements with user experience insights
Site24x7 tracks the entire user journey, including session duration, user interactions, and app load times, and provides a well-rounded analysis of user experience. It also combines synthetic monitoring, which simulates user interactions to detect issues proactively, and real user monitoring, which captures actual user behavior to provide real-world insights. While Firebase's main strength lies in its crash reporting capabilities, Site24x7 offers deeper insights into how users engage with your app in real-world conditions. This allows you to identify slow screens, high exit rates, and performance bottlenecks, enabling proactive optimizations before issues escalate.
Detect anomalies in real-time with AI-powered alerts
Site24x7 enables AI-powered, intelligent, and customizable alerts that go beyond simple crash reporting. Proactively detect issues such as app slowdowns, memory leaks, and network latency in real time, and address potential problems before they affect the user experience. Site24x7's AI capabilities analyze patterns and predict future issues, helping you prioritize fixes and prevent major disruptions. Firebase comes with some capabilities for anomaly detection and forecasting, but the customization is not as extensive as dedicated monitoring tools and is available only for Firebase data.
Ease of use
Site24x7 delivers a user-friendly, ready-to-use solution with intuitive dashboards and prebuilt templates, making the setup process quick and straightforward. Its smooth integration with various cloud platforms ensures faster implementation, allowing businesses to efficiently monitor their environments right from the start. This ease of use leads to lower training costs and faster time-to-value. In contrast, Google Firebase demands more technical expertise due to the numerous integrations and customizations needed to get application monitoring up and running.
Site24x7 vs Google Firebase
| Services Offered | ManageEngine Site24x7 | Google Firebase |
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| Mobile Application Performance Monitoring | ||
| Android Apps |  |
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| iOS Apps | |
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| React Native Apps | |
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| Flutter | |
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| Crash Analytics | |
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| Monitor by Geographic Regions | |
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| Segment Performance by Device and Carrier | |
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| User Sessions | |
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| Mobile Vitals | App start time, Slow Frames, and Frozen Frames |
App start trace, app-in foreground trace, app-in background trace |
| Application Performance Monitoring | ||
| Java, .Net, PHP, Ruby, Python, and Node.js | |
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| Service Maps | |
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| Critical Application Perfomance Monitoring Features | |
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| Distributed Tracing | |
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| Key Transactions Tracking | |
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| Platform specific Metrics like JVM for Java, IIS for .NET, and NVM for Node.js | |
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| Infrastrucure Monitoring | ||
| Server Monitoring | Out-of-the-box monitoring for over 80 metrics |
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| Database Monitoring | (Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL NDB Cluster, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Insight) |
Limited Capabilities |
| Virtualization Monitoring | Nutanix, VMware, Hyper-V |
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| Microsoft Applications Monitoring | Monitors Microsoft Exchange, IIS, SQL, Windows server backups, Sharepoint, Office 365, Active Directory, Failover Cluster, and Hyper-V. |
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| Plugin Integrations to Monitor Systems, Apps, and Services |
100+ |
Limited |
| Container Monitoring | Out-of-the-box monitoring for Docker and Kubernetes |
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| Cloud Monitoring | Out-of-the-box monitoring with best practice recommendations for AWS, Azure, and GCP |
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| Network Monitoring | ||
| Network Discovery | (SNMP, ICMP, and CIDR) |
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| Support for Devices like Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and Printers | |
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| Device Templates | (Over 11,000 device templates from 450+ vendors) |
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| SNMP Traps for Instant Alerts | |
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| Firmware Vulnerability Dashboard | |
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| Network Traffic (NetFlow) Monitoring | (Supports NetFlow, sFlow, J-Flow, CFlow, IPFIX, NetStream, and AppFlow. Analyzes top applications and conversations by source and destination using the application and DSCP templates.) |
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| Network Configuration Management | (Out-of-the-box) |
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| Layer 2/Layer 3 and Topology Maps | |
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| WAN Monitoring | |
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| Monitoring for Software-defined Networks | |
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| Digital Experience Monitoring | ||
| Website Monitoring | |
Limited Capabilities |
| Synthetic Monitoring | |
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| REST API Monitoring | |
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| Front-end monitoring using protocols like PING, POP, IMAP, FTP, SMTP, NTP, and WebSocket | |
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| Monitoring from global locations | |
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| Security Monitoring | |
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| Real User Monitoring | |
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| Log Management | ||
| Collect Log Data from Multiple Servers | |
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| Out-of-the-box Support for Common Applications—MySQL, Kafka, Apache, Tomcat, NGINX, Kubernetes, and other cloud logs | |
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| Query-based Searching | |
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| Query-based Alerts | |
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| Platform Features | ||
| Support for Monitor Grouping and Management | |
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| Free Tools | |
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| Threshold based Alerting | |
Limited Capabilities |
| SLA Management & Reporting | |
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| IT Automation | |
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| Multi-User Login | |
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| Customizable Dashboards | |
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| Support for MSPs | |
Offers multi-tenancy |
| Alerts | ||
| SMS, Email, and Mobile App | |
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| Voice Call | |
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| Alarm Management | |
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| Third-party Integrations | ||
| ServiceNow, PagerDuty , Opsgenie, Jira, Freshservice, Moogsoft, Webhooks, Slack, Microsoft Team, and Zapier | |
Only with Webhooks, Slack, and Microsoft Teams |
| ConnectWise Manage, Telegram, Amazon EventBridge, Zoho Desk, ManageEngine AlarmsOne, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Zoho Analytics, and Zoho Cliq | |
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| Secure Login Features | ||
| SSO Capability | |
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| Biometrics Authentication | |
Limited Support |
| Two-factor Authentication | |
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| OAuth 2.0 | |
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| Okta login Support | |
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| Active Directory Integration | |
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| Ability to Restrict IP Addresses | |
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| Password Policy | |
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| AI-powered Monitoring | ||
| Anomaly Detection | |
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| Dynamic/Adaptive thresholds | |
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| Forecasting | |
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| Support Options | ||
| Phone | |
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| Chat | |
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| Knowledge Base | |
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| Video Tutorials | |
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| Community page | |
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| Mobile and TV Apps | ||
| TV App | |
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| Android App | |
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| iOS App | |
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| Pricing | ||
| Free Plan | |
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| Pricing starts from | $8 USD/month per application |
Usage-based pricing. Pay for the resources you consume. |
| Free trial | 30 days |
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