We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and AWS X-Ray based on real PeerSpot user reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: After analyzing user feedback, it can be concluded that Azure Monitor is the preferred choice when compared to AWS X-Ray. Azure Monitor provides a comprehensive overview and high-level details about potential obstacles and problematic endpoints. It seamlessly integrates with Power BI for effective data visualization and allows monitoring of all cloud resources across multiple subscriptions on a single dashboard. Although AWS X-Ray is praised for its error identification and resolution capabilities, Azure Monitor surpasses it with a wider range of functionalities and integration options, making it a comprehensive solution for monitoring and troubleshooting.
"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 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."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"You can scale the product."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"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."
"If you have a small team, it's probably overkill."
"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 troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, while Azure Monitor is rated 7.6. 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 Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Grafana, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our AWS X-Ray vs. Azure Monitor report.
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