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AWS X-Ray vs Metricly: 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, Metricly is detailed as "A platform that coaches users throughout their cloud journey to safely and easily control their public cloud spending". It is a SaaS-based adaptive monitoring solution that helps organizations monitor cloud services, applications, infrastructure, and public cloud costs.
AWS X-Ray and Metricly can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by AWS X-Ray are:
- End-to-end tracing
- AWS Service and Database Integrations
- Support for Multiple Languages
On the other hand, Metricly provides the following key features:
- Capacity analytics
- Performance analytics
- Demand monitoring
