AWS X-Ray pros and cons

3.9 out of 5

7 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

AWS X-Ray facilitates problem tracing and monitors request timing efficiently, scaling for various endpoints. It supports federal compliance while identifying performance bottlenecks. Enhanced log analysis aids debugging, though predefined filters need improvement. More KPIs and cross-provider trace sending are necessary. While SDKs for languages like Node.js, Python, and Java are needed, X-Ray may exceed small team needs.

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PROS

AWS X-Ray facilitates problem tracing and monitoring the timing of each step in endpoint requests.

It is highly scalable.

Debugging is enhanced with proper logs and an analytical output for various use cases.

Compliance with regulatory and security requirements for the federal government is achievable.

It identifies bottlenecks in stability and performance, illustrating the response time and duration of data.

CONS

Improvement in log filtering is necessary, and predefined filters could enhance analytics capabilities.

More KPIs are desired from AWS X-Ray.

Using AWS X-Ray with small teams may result in being overly complex.

There could be enhancements in how traces are sent to other providers.

It would be beneficial if AWS X-Ray had SDKs for different languages such as Node.js, Python, or Java.

AWS X-Ray Pros review quotes

Parth Solanki

Founder & CEO at Quicklead.io

Dec 29, 2022

It is a very scalable solution.

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reviewer2098713

Managing Trustee and CTO at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

Feb 17, 2023

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.

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Rodrigo Melo

Senior Java Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 12, 2021

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.

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Muhmad Tabrez A Deewanji

Lead Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 16, 2023

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.

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Jiri Sostok

CEO at noriba

Apr 12, 2023

AWS X-RAY identifies bottlenecks in terms of stability and performance and how long certain data lives in terms of response time and duration.

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Ammar Khalid

Aws Cloud Engineer at Octavebytes

Nov 8, 2024

The most beneficial feature is that it shows a dashboard for performance intervals, which reveals latencies.

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LuizCorreia

Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees

Sep 12, 2023

AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process.

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AWS X-Ray Cons review quotes

Parth Solanki

Founder & CEO at Quicklead.io

Dec 29, 2022

I do not have any notes in terms of improvements.

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reviewer2098713

Managing Trustee and CTO at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

Feb 17, 2023

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.

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Rodrigo Melo

Senior Java Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 12, 2021

The user interface is sometimes kind of confusing to understand. It's not very user-friendly.

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Muhmad Tabrez A Deewanji

Lead Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 16, 2023

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.

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Jiri Sostok

CEO at noriba

Apr 12, 2023

If you have a small team, it's probably overkill.

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Ammar Khalid

Aws Cloud Engineer at Octavebytes

Nov 8, 2024

It should have X-Ray SDKs for different languages like Node.js, Python, or Java.

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LuizCorreia