What is AWS X-Ray?
It helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With this, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors. It provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components.
AWS X-Ray is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Who uses AWS X-Ray?
Companies
28 companies reportedly use AWS X-Ray in their tech stacks, including Queue-it, Bagelcode, and Wongnai.
Developers
36 developers on StackShare have stated that they use AWS X-Ray.
AWS X-Ray Integrations
Node.js, Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Archium.io are some of the popular tools that integrate with AWS X-Ray. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with AWS X-Ray.
AWS X-Ray's Features
- End-to-end tracing
- AWS Service and Database Integrations
- Support for Multiple Languages
AWS X-Ray Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to AWS X-Ray?
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Dynatrace
It is an AI-powered, full stack, automated performance management solution. It provides user experience analysis that identifies and resolves application performance issues faster than ever before.
AppDynamics
AppDynamics develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem resolution for highly distributed applications through transaction flow monitoring and deep diagnostics.
Jaeger
Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing System
Splunk
It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
