We performed a comparison between AWS Auto Scaling and AWS X-Ray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AWS Auto Scaling is cost-effective and very useful for businesses."
"When a lot of traffic comes into our organization, the product scales our instances based on our environment’s requirements."
"The tool's most valuable feature is vertical auto-scaling, which is easy to use. However, most companies now prefer horizontal scaling. I set up the health check integration to monitor CPU usage. When it reaches seventy percent, it sends me an email notification."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it scales automatically without manual intervention based on the metrics we provide."
"I like the graphs provided by the tool."
"It can scale."
"The health check integration feature ensures that the instances are healthy and capable of absorbing traffic, thus serving their purpose effectively."
"The various scaling options available, such as step scaling, are particularly useful."
"AWS X-RAY identifies bottlenecks in terms of stability and performance and how long certain data lives in terms of response time and duration."
"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."
"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 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 has latency issues. It depends on the distribution used, whether it's Amazon Linux, Windows Linux, etc. Occasionally, there are latency issues, which might lead to slower performance."
"The only area of improvement is the speed at which servers are launched. When cleaning up to six servers at a time, it can take up to 15 to 20 minutes to launch new servers."
"The solution is not out-of-the-box and you have to study to use it. It should be more easier to use."
"Flexibility in configuring the workload is missing in AWS Auto Scaling."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"The setup can be a bit complex in some situations."
"The speed of the solution must be improved."
"The product’s security features need improvement."
"If you have a small team, it's probably overkill."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"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."
"The user interface is sometimes kind of confusing to understand. It's not very user-friendly."
"I do not have any notes in terms of improvements."
"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."
AWS Auto Scaling is ranked 15th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 18 reviews while AWS X-Ray is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews. AWS Auto Scaling is rated 8.8, while AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Auto Scaling writes "The product helps reduce costs and avoids interruptions to the customer experience". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS X-Ray writes "Saves time, is relatively cheap, and helps find errors". AWS Auto Scaling is most compared with , whereas AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). See our AWS Auto Scaling vs. AWS X-Ray report.
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