We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AWS X-Ray based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dynatrace is the preferred choice over AWS X-Ray due to its extensive features such as real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities. The interface is user-friendly, and it is more scalable than AWS X-Ray. AWS X-Ray is functional, but reviewers suggest improvements in log filtering and user interface configuration.
"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."
"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."
"AWS X-Ray is a strong solution and has a smooth integration process."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"One of the most valuable features of Dynatrace is that it offers good visibility. It's better than other APM tools. You're not required to use a different technology when you have Dynatrace because it will work whether you're hosting it on Windows or Linux."
"Dynatrace has reduced our total headcount in operations and the mean time to detect and resolve problems. As a result, those challenging offline times are much shorter, if not non-existent, because of this solution."
"A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."
"The move valuable feature is the AI engine, which is amazing."
"The monitoring is very good."
"The most valuable features for me are the dashboard panels because they enable you to monitor multiple applications in one single site."
"Dynatrace has multiple features that I need, but I love that you can analyze traffic, including any bottlenecks. I also find the tool user-friendly and has an easy-to-navigate interface."
"Having OneAgent is the most valuable feature of Dyantrace, as well as the monitoring."
"I do not have any notes in terms of improvements."
"If you have a small team, it's probably overkill."
"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."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"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."
"When integrating this solution with any third party applications, there is an additional cost to pay. This can make the solution very costly to use."
"In the next release, I'd like to see more portables included regarding the screens."
"The licensing part is complicated or not transparent. It is very difficult to assess the number of licenses for a prospect. You have to do a PoC, and calculating the number of licenses for two years or three years is sometimes very difficult. It also depends on each case. There are multiple types of licenses. Sometimes, you need only one of them, and sometimes, you need all of them. This is an area for improvement."
"An area for improvement would be security. In the next release, I'd like to see more network-centric capabilities - Dynatrace is good at the network level, but I have to leverage other network solutions and integrate with them, but a holistic approach including the network as a one-stop-shop would be great."
"Its infra monitoring is not that good. They are mainly into the APM environment, such as network monitoring and other things. Strong end-to-end infrastructure monitoring is missing. SNMP monitoring is currently not very good in this solution."
"Support for cloud-based environments needs to be improved."
"The solution could improve by allowing more dashboards customization. This would allow us to monitor the metric better."
"It would help if Dynatrace allowed more features that work with metrics like Grafana or New Relic."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 12th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 5 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 23 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.4. 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 Dynatrace writes "Allows us to monitor application performance, underlying infrastructure, and relationships with Smartscape technology". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry and Grafana, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and ThousandEyes. See our AWS X-Ray vs. Dynatrace report.
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