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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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    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.

    Sematext Synthetics provides the ability to actively monitor APIs, Web URLs, websites, and user journeys/click flows from multiple locations around the globe. Synthetic monitoring helps you ensure the availability and performance of your APIs and websites. Synthetics will help you identify downtime and performance issues by simulating user requests and interactions with your web page.

    No agent installation is required and there is no need to change your application code.


    Sematext Synthetic Benefits

    • Fix performance issues before they affect your end users
      Synthetic monitoring allows you to simulate user interactions at different locations worldwide. Synthetic performance monitoring monitors all your APIs, web applications, and mobile apps, no matter how many users they are. With Sematext, you can customize Dashboards and Alerts to monitor critical infrastructure aspects and trigger them when they malfunction. This will help you spot problems before they arise.
    • Benchmark your website
      Synthetic monitoring solutions let you look at your APIs from different places during the day. Then you can use this data as a baseline for benchmarking since it helps you figure out what needs to be improved, and lets you compare your service to the competition.
    • Test your scaling capabilities
      A website and application are built to respond quickly to users, but your server needs to be ready when traffic spikes unexpectedly. You can run artificial tests to determine how your server will behave under load with synthetic performance monitoring. Once you have this data, you can decide what steps to take to scale gracefully.

    • Test new product features before launching
      If you're launching new features, synthetic monitoring lets you run a full test suite before releasing them during peak hours, which is a great tool to have. You'll be able to see how the application reacts under load and whether any of the recent changes will impact a 3rd party API you might use.

    • Monitor third-party APIs and critical business processes
      If you don't use any third-party tools in your business, you run into a number of problems related to their availability. You need to keep an eye on them and get an alert the second things start to slow down. Monitoring API metrics is not enough to ensure your users get the best experience possible. Make sure your application works as expected, including logging in, searching, and checkout.

    • Ensure SLA compliance
      Whatever side of the SLA you are on – the key is to make sure everyone in the contract adheres to the contract. To understand the performance limitations of your application and set realistic expectations, you should use synthetic monitoring tools if you're a service provider. Customers want to know that the vendor can fulfill his promises.

    • Reduce MTTR
      With synthetic monitoring software like Sematext Synthetics, you can lower your MTTR by sending out alerts before the issue becomes a problem. In addition to being notified sooner, you'll also learn what's causing the problem and how to fix it.

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    Just some of the things you can do with Sematext Synthetics

    • Monitor & track the availability & performance of APIs
    • Monitor SSL certificate expiration time
    • Monitor websites and track various web performance metrics like page load time, paint metrics, etc.
    • Monitor website uptime
    • Monitor individual resource performance in a website by domain, type, and response code
    • Create public status page showing the availability of your selected web services and share it with your customers
    • Identify slow resources
    • Monitor third-party resources performance
    • Investigate slow pages & identify bottlenecks using a waterfall chart
    • Create user journeys with custom assertions based on the content of the webpage
    • Collect and track custom metrics from your sites
    • Benchmark against competitors
    • Create custom dashboards and alerts based on gathered performance metrics
    • Debug downtime with end-to-end visibility of application performance
    • Get alerted when things fail via multiple alert channels like email, Slack, Pagerduty, webhooks, etc.
    • Monitor websites behind firewalls and on private networks with Private Locations
    • Check out the full product update.

    At Sematext, we’ve also had the need to monitor application availability. We use Synthetics actively to monitor our own applications and it has helped us uncover issues with our APIs on multiple occasions.

    Where to go from here?

    Sign up for a free trial and try it for yourself. Pricing starts at $2 per month for HTTP monitors and $7 per month for browser monitors. We have pay-as-you-go pricing if your usage changes or fixed plans if you can estimate your usage. 

    Sample Customers
    COMCAST, ConnectWise, skyscanner, AirAsia, cookpad, cimpress, VTEX, zowdow
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
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    AWS X-Ray is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Sematext Synthetics is ranked 58th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, while Sematext Synthetics is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of AWS X-Ray writes "Saves time, is relatively cheap, and helps find errors". On the other hand, AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas Sematext Synthetics is most compared with Datadog and Honeycomb.io.

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