IOpipe

iopipe.com
Observability & Monitoring
Weekend Project

Function Faster | AWS Lambda Monitoring + Observability

How to Replace IOpipe

Overview

IOpipe is a serverless monitoring and observability platform for AWS Lambda functions that provides real-time telemetry, performance tracing, error tracking, and debugging capabilities. It helps development teams develop faster with detailed code visibility and operate with confidence by discovering issues before users notice them. The platform requires no code changes and offers both free and paid tiers with comprehensive alerting and profiling features.

Features

16 features across 12 categories

Alerting(2)

Alerts

Multiple rules and hooks per alert with support for Metrics, Errors, Custom Metrics, and Tracing. Global alerts on all and future functions

Customizable Alerts

Configure multiple alert rules and conditions

Also in: Splunk, Lacework, Dashlane

Dashboard(1)

Realtime Dashboard

Real-time dashboard visualization of serverless function performance and metrics

Debugging(1)

ProfilingPremium

CPU profiling for Node.js functions to see exactly what's going on inside function executions

Error Tracking(1)

Error Aggregation

Real-time error tracking with timeouts, stack traces, and invocation history across functions

Integration(1)

Seamless AWS Integration

Visualize and track the performance of any call

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Logging(2)

Error Logs

Comprehensive error logging and tracking

Invocation LogsPremium

Detailed logs of function invocations

Monitoring(3)

Custom MetricsPremium

Create and track custom application metrics

Metrics

Real-time high-resolution metrics down to the exact invocation with percentiles to spot outliers quickly

Real-time Telemetry

Telemetry is analyzed and displayed in less than 3 seconds

Organization(1)

LabelsPremium

Identify and tag invocations to group together in the dashboard, view matching invocations in real time, and use as filters with advanced search rules

Also in: Hugging Face, Smartsheet, 1Password

Performance Analysis(1)

Tracing

Track and measure performance of any call made in functions, get alerted when performance degrades, and spot which call is slowing down invocations

Reporting(1)

Weekly Email Reports

Weekly concise yet detailed reports on application performance, showing top functions, performance changes, and top errors

Search & Filtering(1)

Search

Dig through mountains of metrics, custom metrics, and trace data to find outliers and events for fast troubleshooting

User Interface(1)

Responsive Design

Designed from the start to work on all sized devices

Pricing

Lite

Free Forever
  • 5 team members
  • 2 projects
  • 1 million function invocations per month
  • Unlimited traces
  • 7 day data retention
  • Tracing
  • Standard Metrics
  • Error Logs
  • Realtime Dashboard
  • Email Reports
  • Customizable alerts
  • Slack integration
  • Community Slack support

Essential

$299/mo
  • 10 team members
  • 5 projects
  • 5 million function invocations per month
  • Unlimited traces
  • 30 day data retention
  • Tracing
  • Standard Metrics
  • Error Logs
  • Realtime Dashboard
  • Email Reports
  • Customizable alerts
  • Custom metrics
  • Slack integration
  • PagerDuty integration
  • Community Slack support
  • Email and chat support with SLA

Pro

$749/mo
  • 30 team members
  • 20 projects
  • 20 million function invocations per month
  • Unlimited traces
  • 30 day data retention
  • Tracing
  • Standard Metrics
  • Error Logs
  • Realtime Dashboard
  • Email Reports
  • Customizable alerts
  • Custom metrics
  • Slack integration
  • PagerDuty integration
  • Community Slack support
  • Email and chat support with SLA

Enterprise

Custom
  • Unlimited team members
  • Unlimited projects
  • Unlimited function invocations
  • Unlimited traces
  • Custom data retention
  • Tracing
  • Standard Metrics
  • Error Logs
  • Realtime Dashboard
  • Email Reports
  • Customizable alerts
  • Custom metrics
  • Slack integration
  • PagerDuty integration
  • Community Slack support
  • Email and chat support with SLA
  • Enterprise grade support with SLA
  • Phone support
  • Private Slack support channel

Cost Calculator

Keep Paying IOpipe

Monthly$299/mo
Yearly$3.6k/yr
5-Year Total$17.9k

Build It Yourself

Est. Build Time~1 hrs
Hosting$20/mo
DifficultyVery Easy

Total Cost Comparison

1 YearSave $3.3k
SaaS
$3.6k
DIY
$240
3 YearsSave $10k
SaaS
$10.8k
DIY
$720
5 YearsSave $16.7k
SaaS
$17.9k
DIY
$1.2k

DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 16 features at very easy complexity.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a IOpipe alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 16 features.

Buy IOpipe

Monthly cost$2,990/mo
3-year total$107,640
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Better Value
Development cost$12,000
Maintenance$180/mo
3-year total$18,480
Dev time~1 months

Building could save ~$89,160 over 3 years.

Estimates based on 16 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

5 known integrations

AWS LambdaEmailPagerDutySlackWebhooks