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Contexta Cloud vs Standalone

On Cloud you get full client-side performance metrics; Standalone adds server-side infrastructure monitoring on your own infra.

Two ways to run Contexta

Contexta Cloud is the hosted, multi-tenant service. You get the full client-side performance picture: throughput, response-time percentiles, error rates, per-step transactions and pass/fail, live and after the run.

Because Cloud is shared infrastructure, it does not expose server-side telemetry (database CPU/DTU, application-server CPU/memory, load-injector CPU) — those panels show as a standalone feature.

Contexta Standalone

A standalone deployment runs Contexta on infrastructure you own. There, the same dashboards light up with real infrastructure monitoring — database, servers and injectors — alongside the client-side metrics, because the infrastructure is yours to monitor. Talk to us if you want full-stack performance monitoring.

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