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."
"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."
"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."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"I do not have any notes in terms of improvements."
"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."
"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."
"If you have a small team, it's probably overkill."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews. AWS X-Ray is rated 8.0, 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 "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". AWS X-Ray is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Grafana, whereas Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our AWS X-Ray vs. Azure Monitor report.
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