We performed a comparison between AWS X-Ray and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, AWS X-Ray is the preferred choice when compared to Prometheus. Users appreciate its ability to efficiently detect and resolve errors, along with its comprehensive information like IP addresses and user locations, ensuring compliance and security. Conversely, users feel that Prometheus could benefit from improvements in query language, setup process, and stability. Furthermore, AWS X-Ray stands out with its technical support, while Prometheus relies on documentation and an online community for assistance.
"The most important one is compliance. We're able to achieve our regulatory levels. We're able to achieve the security level that we need for the federal government."
"AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The most promising feature of AWS X-Ray is that you can debug the issues through the proper logs. You can also get an analysis out of the logs for some use cases, though I have yet to try all the features of AWS X-Ray."
"AWS X-RAY identifies bottlenecks in terms of stability and performance and how long certain data lives in terms of response time and duration."
"The solution has made it easier for us to trace the problems that we have with our requests and to monitor the timing of each step in each request we do in our endpoints."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"What needs to be better in AWS X-Ray is the log filtering. Predefined filters could be helpful because the power of analytics comes from how you can filter the data. I also want to see more KPIs from AWS X-Ray."
"I do not have any notes in terms of improvements."
"The user interface is sometimes kind of confusing to understand. It's not very user-friendly."
"If you have a small team, it's probably overkill."
"Like most Amazon products, the user interface, configuration, and tuning aren't the easiest. That's the biggest reason why people tend to go to products like TerraForm and Terragrunt. We use TerraForm and Terragrunt. So, for setting things up and interacting with X-Ray, it's definitely the user interface that can be better."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"There isn’t much clarity regarding the issues that happen at the server end. It is a push model and from the client’s point of view, it needs to look better and solve remote issues."
"The scalability must be improved."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AWS X-Ray writes "Saves time, is relatively cheap, and helps find errors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry and Elastic Observability, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and ITRS Geneos. See our AWS X-Ray vs. Prometheus report.
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