We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and AWS X-Ray based on real PeerSpot user reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: After analyzing user feedback, it can be concluded that Azure Monitor is the preferred choice when compared to AWS X-Ray. Azure Monitor provides a comprehensive overview and high-level details about potential obstacles and problematic endpoints. It seamlessly integrates with Power BI for effective data visualization and allows monitoring of all cloud resources across multiple subscriptions on a single dashboard. Although AWS X-Ray is praised for its error identification and resolution capabilities, Azure Monitor surpasses it with a wider range of functionalities and integration options, making it a comprehensive solution for monitoring and troubleshooting.
"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 identifies bottlenecks in terms of stability and performance and how long certain data lives in terms of response time and duration."
"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."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"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."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"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."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"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."
"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 would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"The default interface should be improved."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. 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 Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Grafana, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our AWS X-Ray vs. Azure Monitor report.
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