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AWS X-Ray

Read 6 AWS X-Ray reviews
7,074 views|6,293 comparisons
100% willing to recommend
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CA App Synthetic Monitor

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66% willing to recommend
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Featured Review
Parth Solanki
Saves time, is relatively cheap, and helps find errors
By using AWS X-Ray, we know which risk takes how many milliseconds. For example, if there is a request during user onboarding, such as uploading... Read more →
Anonymous User
A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic
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  • "The pricing for AWS X-Ray is a six out of ten."
  • "As you develop a relationship with Amazon, your pricing gets lower. You get credits for the amount of the system you use, and then if you're the government, you can get government pricing. For commercial users, there's a hump when you go from small to medium to big enterprise. Small businesses can live pretty easily off the free tier in a lot of cases, but when you go from a medium to a big enterprise, it becomes more expensive on a per-user basis. I'd like to see that curve going in a different way where pricing can be driven down while people are trying to adopt the technology."
  • "The solution is a bit expensive."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about AWS X-Ray?
    Top Answer:AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS X-Ray?
    Top Answer:The solution is a bit expensive.
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    What needs improvement with AWS X-Ray?
    Top Answer:They can improve how traces are sent to other providers.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CA App Synthetic ...
    Top Answer:The product comes with expensive annual licenses. The product is very good, very reliable but it costs a lot. Barracuda offers the same kind of services at a lower price.
    What needs improvement with CA App Synthetic Monitor?
    Top Answer:If you are responsible for monitoring the logs in F5, it isn't very easy. The format is complicated compared to different vendors. For example, Fortinet and Cisco have feasible formats for sending and… more »
    What is your primary use case for CA App Synthetic Monitor?
    Top Answer:If you are sending mail or browsing anything, you don't want to send your traffic without encryption. We use SSL for traffic encryption and ASM for SSL offloading. It is a proxy server for SSL. The… more »
    Ranking
    13th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    7,074
    Comparisons
    6,293
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    547
    Rating
    8.2
    46th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    414
    Comparisons
    273
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    468
    Rating
    8.0
    Comparisons
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    CA ASM
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    Overview

    AWS X-Ray is a powerful debugging and performance analysis tool offered by Amazon Web Services. It allows developers to trace requests made to their applications and identify bottlenecks and issues. 

    With X-Ray, developers can visualize the entire request flow and pinpoint the exact location where errors occur. It provides detailed insights into the performance of individual components and helps optimize the overall application performance. 

    X-Ray integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, making it easy to trace requests across different services and identify dependencies. It also offers a comprehensive set of APIs and SDKs, enabling developers to instrument their applications and capture valuable data for analysis. With its user-friendly interface and powerful features, AWS X-Ray is a valuable tool for developers looking to improve the performance and reliability of their applications.

    IT organizations require full visibility into business-critical applications regardless of where they're hosted in order to maintain service levels and proactively deal with issues before the end-user is impacted. CA App Synthetic Monitor uses synthetic transactions to provide performance insight for these applications no matter where they're hosted: outside the firewall, in the cloud or delivered via a managed service provider (MSP). Delivered as software as a service, CA App Synthetic Monitor provides end-to-end transaction response time visibility into cloud, mobile and traditional web applications using synthetic transactions delivered by a network of 95 monitoring stations across six continents, 48 countries, 93 cities and 15 time zones.

    Sample Customers
    COMCAST, ConnectWise, skyscanner, AirAsia, cookpad, cimpress, VTEX, zowdow
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    AWS X-Ray is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while CA App Synthetic Monitor is ranked 46th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, while CA App Synthetic Monitor is rated 7.0. 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 CA App Synthetic Monitor writes "A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas CA App Synthetic Monitor is most compared with AppDynamics and Azure Monitor.

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