We performed a comparison between Grafana 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: Grafana is the preferred choice over AWS X-Ray. Grafana offers extensive visualization capabilities, customization options, and a helpful community. It has a user-friendly interface, live monitoring, and the ability to connect with various data sets. Users have also praised Grafana's customer service and support. On the other hand, AWS X-Ray is commended for its error identification and resolution capabilities, as well as its compliance and security features. However, users have suggested improvements such as better log filtering and more KPIs.
"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."
"AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process."
"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 identifies bottlenecks in terms of stability and performance and how long certain data lives in terms of response time and duration."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"The solution has good features."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"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."
"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."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"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."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The solution should include online support."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, while Grafana is rated 8.0. 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 Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry and Dynatrace, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and AppDynamics. See our AWS X-Ray vs. Grafana report.
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