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We performed a comparison between AWS Auto Scaling and Stackify 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.
To learn more, read our detailed AWS Auto Scaling vs. Stackify Report (Updated: March 2024).
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"It efficiently handles traffic, ensuring we are not running expenses and the infrastructure is strong enough to handle the load.""The health check integration feature ensures that the instances are healthy and capable of absorbing traffic, thus serving their purpose effectively.""AWS Auto Scaling is cost-effective and very useful for businesses.""It helps us to reduce the cost.""I like the graphs provided by the tool.""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 product provides self-healing features.""The tool gives you the flexibility to scale up and grow. The solution is also fast to deploy."

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"The filter feature on Stackify is one of the features I found valuable. It's awesome. When I want to get the application logs, the solution gives me many filters. For example, if I want to get logs from my test environment, the option is there for me to select the environment from Stackify, and you can also select the particular application, and you'll see the information you need there. The filter feature alone and the fact that Stackify offers a lot of different filters is what I like the most about the solution because I've used other tools with the filter feature, but the filtering was very difficult, versus Stackify that has good filtering. On Stackify, you can filter the information by the last one hour, or the last four hours, and you can also select the date range and specify the timestamp, then the solution will give you the information based on the date range you specified. Another feature I found valuable on Stackify is its rating feature because it tells you how your application is faring. For example, a rating of A means excellent, while a rating of F means very bad, or that your application is not doing well at all. The ratings are from A to F. I also like that Stackify helps you in terms of load management because the solution gives you information on overutilized resources. These are the most valuable features of the solution.""The solution is stable and reliable.""The performance dashboard and the accurate level of details are beneficial.""The deployment is very fast."

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Cons
"In comparison to other public clouds, the product is costly.""It could be cheaper.""The tool must include AI features.""The solution is not out-of-the-box and you have to study to use it. It should be more easier to use.""The product’s pricing needs improvement.""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 speed of the solution must be improved.""Flexibility in configuring the workload is missing in AWS Auto Scaling."

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"I would like to be able to see metrics about individual running containers on the host machines.""I've not used Stackify for a while, and I'm currently using a solution now that's not as good as Stackify. Among the solutions I've been using so far, Stackify has been one of the best for me, but there's always room for improvement. For example, I don't know if it's just me, but when I try to get the log from Stackify, sometimes it doesn't appear in real-time. It takes a few minutes before the logs appear. When I redeploy my solution and the application starts, I don't see the logs immediately, and it would take two to three minutes before I see the logs. I don't know if other customers have a similar experience. It's the wait time for the logs to appear that's a concern for me, could be improved, and is what the Stackify team should be looking into. In terms of any additional feature that I'd like added to the solution, I'm not sure if Stackify has a way to export logs out. I've been trying to do it. On the solution, you can click on a spiral-like icon and it shows you the entire error, and I'd prefer an export button that would let me download the error and save that into a text file, for example, so it'll be available on my local machine for me to reference it, especially because the log keeps going and as you're using the solution, the system keeps pushing messages on to Stackify, so if I'm looking at a particular error at 12:05 PM, for example, by the time I go back to my system and would like to revisit the error at 12:25 PM, on Stackify, the logs would have gone past that level and I won't see it again which makes it difficult. When you now go back to that timestamp, you don't tend to see it immediately, but if the solution had an export feature for me to save that particular error information on my local machine for reference at a later time, I won't have to go back to Stackify. I just go to that log, specifically to that particular export that I've received on my local machine. I can get it and review it, and it would be easier that way versus me going back to Stackify to find that particular error and request that particular information.""It should be easily scalable and configurable in different instances.""The search feature could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."
  • "The product has moderate pricing."
  • "The product is expensive."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."
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  • "The price is variable. It depends on how much data we have received in that particular month. Usually, it goes up to $2,000, or, at times, $3,000 USD per month."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The various scaling options available, such as step scaling, are particularly useful.
    Top Answer:While I haven't found any significant need for improvement in AWS Auto Scaling, the setup can be a bit complex in some situations.
    Top Answer:The performance dashboard and the accurate level of details are beneficial.
    Top Answer:The licensing cost is calculated on a per-user basis.
    Top Answer:When Stackify completes drill downs, sometimes there is a block of execution pipelines, and you cannot see the details. It does not allow you to analyze the block of code, and we are unsure what that… more »
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    Also Known As
    AWS Auto-Scaling
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    Overview

    AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes. The service provides a simple, powerful user interface that lets you build scaling plans for resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas. AWS Auto Scaling makes scaling simple with recommendations that allow you to optimize performance, costs, or balance between them. If you’re already using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to dynamically scale your Amazon EC2 instances, you can now combine it with AWS Auto Scaling to scale additional resources for other AWS services. With AWS Auto Scaling, your applications always have the right resources at the right time.

    Stackify is an application performance management (APM) solution that combines application performance monitoring with logs, errors, and reporting. It is a SaaS solution that is developer-focused. Users can quickly scan, identify, and repair issues with applications. Stackify APM offers valuable tools, such as Prefix and Retrace, which help to make it a comprehensive and valuable APM solution. Stackify is now part of the Netreo family of IT Infrastructure Management (ITIM), which is considered one of the fastest-growing IT organizations in the marketplace today.

    Stackify Prefix

    Stackify Prefix helps developers write better code, faster. The tool examines, tests, and approves code as it is being written. Almost every new application is code-perfect, negating the need for exhausting troubleshooting and frustrating time-consuming code review.

    Prefix is able to discover poor-performing SQL queries, ORM queries, potential bottlenecks, and concealed exceptions prior to moving the application into production.

    Prefix offers Summary Dashboards, intuitive suggestions, integrated logs, and distributed tracing. Distributed tracing expands visibility to cloud-native applications, microservices, and containers and can also provide additional transparency to cache services, web services, third-party services, and more. Users are able to easily move from logs to traces and back.

    This valuable tool ensures developers are able to consistently release the best code possible in the least amount of time, while improving performance, productivity, and profitability.

    Prefix is a very robust and easy-to-use tool. It can be used seamlessly with Linux, macOS, and Windows. Prefix integrates well with numerous languages, such as Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js, .Net, and .Net Core.

    Stackify Retrace

    Stackify Retrace is a user-friendly, trusted APM solution used in more than fifty countries worldwide. Users know that Retrace is able to ensure they can complete quicker, more efficient application development and consistently enhance overall application performance by suggesting important intuitive suggestions users need. 

    This solution is beneficial to both developers (Dev) and operations (Ops) personnel to learn to improve code and immediately finetune issues by:

    • Establishing effortless collaboration between Dev and Ops personnel via an easy-to-use GUI dashboard.

    • Delivering complete transparency of all stages of the application development process, from pre-development to production.

    • Utilizing performance protocols, such as error tracking, application logs, and code profiling, in real time in order to thoroughly understand how long a code will take to complete various tasks.

    • Improving overall efficiency and productivity by immediately discovering and repairing application issues.

    Retrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) uses both front-end and back-end monitoring to give users a complete picture of what is going on with the applications. This intuitive dashboard displays performance with a complete breakdown of resource usage and integrates the server-side and client traces into one engaging, user-friendly, extensive view. 

    Retrace is an out-of-the-box solution that works seamlessly with Java stacks, PHP, Node.js, Ruby, Python, .Net, and .Net Core. It is also compatible with many of today’s popular frameworks, such as AWS, Azure, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redis, and SQL Server. Additionally, Retrace will work effectively with many cloud providers, containers, and languages, and offers excellent and easy integration with today's favorite tools such as Jira, Slack, Jenkins, and more.

    Sample Customers
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    MyRacePass, ClearSale, Newitts, Carbonite, Boston Software, Children's International, Starkwood Media Group, Fewzion
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company27%
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Non Tech Company18%
    Retailer9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Government14%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company12%
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Retailer7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise48%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise77%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise61%
    Buyer's Guide
    AWS Auto Scaling vs. Stackify
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about AWS Auto Scaling vs. Stackify and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    AWS Auto Scaling is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 18 reviews while Stackify is ranked 43rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews. AWS Auto Scaling is rated 8.8, while Stackify is rated 7.8. 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 Stackify writes "Easy to set up with great custom dashboards but needs to improve non-.NET infrastructure". AWS Auto Scaling is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Stackify is most compared with New Relic, Dynatrace and AppDynamics. See our AWS Auto Scaling vs. Stackify report.

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