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Get actionable performance insights

Get precise, data-driven insights and recommendations to enhance your app's efficiency.

Blackfire provides automated profiling and actionable guidelines, eliminating guesswork and helping teams continuously improve performance

Blackfire provides actionable performance insights
Build resilient and crisis-free web apps with Blackfire

Build resilient and crisis-free apps

Avoid firefighting with a structured approach to performance monitoring.

Blackfire helps you detect performance risks before they escalate, empowering teams to prevent and rapidly resolve crises confidently.

Debug smarter, build faster

Reduce debugging time and focus on delivering value to users.

With Blackfire's continuous observability, you identify and fix issues faster, freeing up time for feature development and product innovation.

Blackfire Continuous Profiling dashboard visualizing the comparison between two timeframes

See why developers choose Blackfire

 Procrastination
(No Observability)
DIYNew Relic / DatadogBlackfire
Out of the box observabilityComplex initial setupModerate initial setupImmediate, fully functional with minimal configuration
Observability pipelines configuration and maintenanceExtensive manual setupManaged for the usersManaged for the users
Bug discovery process speedSlowModerateGoodFastest
Automated, integrated performance discovery
Actionable recommendations and insightsLimitedGoodClear, developer-focused, highly actionable insights
Crisis managementChaotic and expensiveDepends on manual setupReal-time alertsProactive crisis prevention
Efficient mitigation
Performance issues proactive detectionReactive onlyLimitedGoodStraightforward and proactive detection coupled with your CI/CD pipelines
Help you become a better developerModerateHighly effective
Intuitive insights for continuous improvement
Cost of fixing performance issuesVery highModerate-to-highModerateLowest
Highly proactive detection prevents major costs
Optimize development resources and timeConstant firefightingLimitedModerateHighly effective

Here's what results our clients achieved:

3xLoad time decrease for Symfony.com

1monthFaster time to market for NKD.com

20xMore orders for GOG.com

Built in Europe by developers, for developers.
Trusted worldwide, by teams like yours

The Blackfire team - © William Jezequel

Blackfire was born from the world of open-source software in the heart of Europe.

We saw engineering teams struggling with performance bottlenecks and drowning in observability data without answers. So we built a different kind of tool: one that delivers precise, actionable insights, helping developers stay in control of their applications, without the noise.

Today, Blackfire is the leading Web Observability solution in Europe for decoupled PHP and Python applications — trusted by over 1,000 engineering teams worldwide.

In 2021, we joined forces with Platform.sh, expanding our mission to provide 360° actionable observability. Together, we empower developers with the tools they need to build, scale, and optimize their applications confidently — with performance as a feature, not an afterthought.

Maximize performance efficiency with real-time insights

Effortlessly identify and address performance bottlenecks, enhancing the efficiency of your application's most resource-intensive areas.

Achieve high performance with low overhead while maintaining full observability of your entire application.

Achieve instant bottleneck detection through continuous application monitoring and thorough code execution analysis.

Blackfire Continuous Profiling dashboard visualizing the comparison between two timeframes

Live monitoring in production

From overall application health to code-level insights, get facts and figures about how your application performs in production.

Monitor server-side response time and memory usage. Drill-down and find bottlenecks in transactions and service calls (e.g., SQL, HTTP, queues).

Obtain unrivaled visibility in your code's behavior while Blackfire automatically profiles key transactions.

Receive an alert when something goes wrong.

Deterministic profiling in production, development, test/staging

Blackfire's unique deterministic profiling technology for PHP and Python collects function-call-level metrics that help you understand exactly how your code behaves.

Through time-sequence and behavioral visualizations, analyze how code consumes time, memory, and network. Find slow SQL queries and HTTP requests.

Collect these kinds of metrics from your live production site, then reproduce measurements on local machines. Iterate and compare iterations to validate code changes.

Profiling illustration showing available tools: command line, PHP, Python or browser extension
Profiling illustration showing available tools: command line, PHP, Python or browser extension

Performance testing

Scenario preview showing example tests

Performance is a feature. It should be tested as such.

Thanks to Blackfire's cutting-edge profiler, extend your test suite from unit-tests, integration tests, and functional tests to performance tests.

Never let a performance regression be deployed on production.

Benefit from our extended support of PHP, Symfony, Laravel, Magento, Drupal, Typo3, Wordpress, Python, Django, with built-in metrics and default assertions.

Automated testing workflows

Synthetic user monitoring, CI/CD integration, unit tests integration? We've got you covered.

Leverage Blackfire's flexible profiling automations to run performance tests proactively, whenever needed. Use the open-source crawler, scraper and tester, SDKs, and native integrations, or configure basic testing scenarios right from the Blackfire web application.

Get comprehensive build reports and notifications where and when it matters—from email to Slack, and GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab.

Illustration showing the integration between CI/CD and scenarios

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