We performed a comparison between AWS X-Ray and BMC Compuware Strobe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."It is a very scalable solution."
"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."
"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 is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process."
"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 identifies bottlenecks in terms of stability and performance and how long certain data lives in terms of response time and duration."
"The initial setup was fairly easy."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I do not have any notes in terms of improvements."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"There are certain aspects of the configuration that could be simplified a bit."
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AWS X-Ray is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 59th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, while BMC Compuware Strobe 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 BMC Compuware Strobe writes "Stable with a good database and a good interface". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS, IBM Application Performance Management and Mainframe Application Tuner.
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