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.
"It is a very scalable solution."
"AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process."
"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."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"You can scale the product."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"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."
"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."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"I do not have any notes in terms of improvements."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"The default interface should be improved."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 5 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.2, 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 "Helps us test the performance and efficiency of cloud applications; good log analysis". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Sentry and Prometheus, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, Dynatrace, Prometheus and Elastic Observability. See our AWS X-Ray vs. Azure Monitor report.
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