We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AWS X-Ray based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dynatrace is the preferred choice over AWS X-Ray due to its extensive features such as real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities. The interface is user-friendly, and it is more scalable than AWS X-Ray. AWS X-Ray is functional, but reviewers suggest improvements in log filtering and user interface configuration.
"It is a very scalable solution."
"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."
"AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process."
"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 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."
"It scales well. We are going to be able to use it for everything we need. "
"The solution's most valuable features are AI and root cause analysis."
"Provides bespoke dashboards and reports which help our business to grow."
"We also got know many internal code bugs which could have caused memory leaks or other issues which we were not able to catch during that development phase."
"Triggering gives us warning that system is getting slow and we need to nail down the issue soon, so it does not impact our business."
"It has been doing a good job of alerting us to issues. It has been very helpful and effective at identifying how we can do things to make our infrastructure and application a little better."
"The Recorder for setting up a synthetic monitor is a really great tool for non-technical staff to be able to set up a monitor."
"It gives us all the data on all the calls, which is something that is very different from any other APM solution that I have seen or used in the past."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"The user interface is sometimes kind of confusing to understand. It's not very user-friendly."
"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."
"If you have a small team, it's probably overkill."
"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."
"Regarding features, it would be good if there would be some features regarding app security."
"The dashboard could improve."
"Dynatrace could be improved by having a fully functional applications and infrastructure monitoring feature. Their existing stack, which is SNMP-based, does not have full infrastructure monitoring, whereas if we compare it with other solutions like New Relic or Datadog, they have moved into infrastructure monitoring. The second improvement I would suggest is in regards to the cost. So far, Dynatrace is the most expensive APM that we sell, even compared to New Relic. I think they can improve a little bit in terms of the license pricing."
"There is still a certain amount of technical skills needed to be able to understand what you are seeing on it. You also need a large amount of technical or infrastructure skills to understand how and where to install it."
"We have some issues with react user sessions."
"Sometimes it is hard to find the right setting for what you want to change."
"The web version of the client interface needs more features that are in the Java-based thick client."
"It could improve its GUI interface. The GUI design is too crowded and the icons are small. Sometimes I end up clicking on the wrong button."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. 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 Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry and Prometheus, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and ThousandEyes. See our AWS X-Ray vs. Dynatrace report.
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