New Relic for code quality?

3 points by progressive_dad 10y ago ↗ HN

I'm looking for alternatives to New Relic that include more/better tools for incident response and logging and will still allow us to monitor performance. We've got a large legacy project full of holes and we go down the rabbit hole with xdebug about twice a week with critical fixes currently. I'd like to get ahead of the curve and start finding issues before they bring down our production server. The client is hesitant to spend a lot of time/money on automated testing and our QA team is pretty taxed with testing current development and deployments. Are there any good out of the box solutions/affordable services (on par with New Relic)?

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smt88 10y ago ↗

You can use Airbrake to log and manage exceptions in production.

You also get set up and use static analysis tools, which will identify lots of potential bugs before they happen. PHP Mess Detector and PHP Sniffer are both useful. You can easily share rules between team members.

jpelletier 10y ago ↗

Hi there, what types of code quality bugs are you concerned with? Are these security issues, performance issues, exception issues, all?

[dead] progressive_dad 10y ago ↗

We've got an angular application on top of an enterprise Ecommerce application. Mostly what we're seeing is issues with validation in the js sending incomplete or malformed data to the endpoints in the backend application and timeouts in the backend application from large operations. We need a way to capture the state of the angular app, get a full dump of the request parameters and a stack trace for any long running operations, and add better validation for a slew of endpoints and front end interfaces written in angular.