We performed a comparison between Grafana 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: Grafana is the preferred choice over AWS X-Ray. Grafana offers extensive visualization capabilities, customization options, and a helpful community. It has a user-friendly interface, live monitoring, and the ability to connect with various data sets. Users have also praised Grafana's customer service and support. On the other hand, AWS X-Ray is commended for its error identification and resolution capabilities, as well as its compliance and security features. However, users have suggested improvements such as better log filtering and more KPIs.
"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 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."
"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."
"It has good stability."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"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 user interface is sometimes kind of confusing to understand. It's not very user-friendly."
"If you have a small team, it's probably overkill."
"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."
"I do not have any notes in terms of improvements."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, while Grafana 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 Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry and Dynatrace, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and AppDynamics. See our AWS X-Ray vs. Grafana report.
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