AWS X-Ray vs Catchpoint RUM: What are the differences?

What is AWS X-Ray? An application performance management service. 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.

What is Catchpoint RUM? We help you deliver amazing digital experiences to strengthen your brand and grow your business. Catchpoint's digital experience monitoring platform pinpoints performance and availability problems end users experience anywhere in the world, so you can confidently fix issues faster than ever.

AWS X-Ray and Catchpoint RUM can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.