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 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."
"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 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."
"AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The solution can scale well."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"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."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"The user interface is sometimes kind of confusing to understand. It's not very user-friendly."
"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 solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 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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