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."
"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."
"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."
"We like the alert features."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"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."
"It has good stability."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"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."
"They can improve how traces are sent to other providers."
"If you have a small team, it's probably overkill."
"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 should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
AWS X-Ray is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 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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