Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
AWS X-Ray vs Dynatrace: What are the differences?
Developers describe AWS X-Ray as "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. On the other hand, Dynatrace is detailed as "Monitor, optimize, and scale every app, in any cloud". 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.
AWS X-Ray and Dynatrace belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
According to the StackShare community, Dynatrace has a broader approval, being mentioned in 99 company stacks & 10 developers stacks; compared to AWS X-Ray, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.
Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS
Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure
Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server
Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.
Please advise on the above. Thanks!
Hi Folks,
I am trying to evaluate Site24x7 against AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and New Relic. Has anyone used Site24X7? If so, what are your opinions on the tool? I know that the license costs are very low compared to other tools in the market. Other than that, are there any major issues anyone has encountered using the tool itself?

what are the most important things you are looking for the tools to do? each has their strong points... are you looking to monitor new tech like containers, k8s, and microservices?
Pros of AWS X-Ray
Pros of Dynatrace
- Real User Monitoring2
- Built on massive industry expertise (since 2005)1
- Out-of-the-box distributed transaction tracing1
- Automated RCA1
- Extensible via SDK1
- Built on API-first design principles1
- Analytics vMotion events detection Discovery Performanc1
- Automation1
- Easy setup1
- Automatic instrumentathird generation full stack Agents1