AWS X-Ray
Amazon, Seattle, Washington, United StatesAWS X-Ray is an application performance monitoring service from Amazon Web Services that traces and analyzes requests across distributed applications and AWS services.
It provides end-to-end tracing by collecting segments and grouping them into traces, generates a service map that visualizes dependencies and latency between components, and supports sampling to control data volume while maintaining visibility into performance issues.
It integrates with services such as EC2, ECS, 
Lambda, and databases like 
DynamoDB and RDS, captures detailed request data, allows adding up to 50 indexed annotations per trace for filtering, and offers tools for anomaly detection, latency analysis, and debugging.
According to our data, AWS X-Ray ranks 11th among the application monitoring tools we track.
It has 1.7% of the application monitoring market share and is detected on 0.07% of all websites.
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💸 Pricing
AWS X-Ray is available in both free and paid versions.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Application Monitoring
- Rank: 11
- Market share: 1.7%
🏆 AWS X-Ray Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Application Monitoring category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Brazil in the Application Monitoring category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Application Monitoring category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Application Monitoring category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Australia in the Application Monitoring category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United Kingdom in the Application Monitoring category.
⚡ Sites Using AWS X-Ray
We have data on 2,573 websites that use the AWS X-Ray application monitoring tool. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using AWS X-Ray is eventbrite.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #77 | English | ||
| 2 | #1,019 | United States | English | |
| 3 | #1,106 | United States | American English | |
| 4 | #1,152 | United States | English | |
| 5 | #1,197 | English | ||
| 6 | #1,269 | Italy | Italian | |
| 7 | #1,732 | United States | English | |
| 8 | #1,761 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 9 | #1,911 | United States | English | |
| 10 | #1,964 | Germany | German | |
| 11 | #2,002 | American English | ||
| 12 | #2,116 | United States | American English | |
| 13 | #2,305 | English | ||
| 14 | #2,475 | Australia | English | |
| 15 | #2,923 | American English | ||
| 16 | #3,040 | France | French | |
| 17 | #3,246 | English | ||
| 18 |  mailchimp.com |
#3,405 | United States | English |
| 19 | #3,510 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 20 | #3,742 | Spanish |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use AWS X-Ray:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using AWS X-Ray are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- United States 32.6%
- United Kingdom 8.8%
- Germany 6.4%
- Japan 5.1%
- Australia 4.3%
- Brazil 3.8%
- Netherlands 2.9%
- France 2.7%
- Canada 2.4%
- Other 31%
Most AWS X-Ray users speak English, German, or Japanese.
- English 69.5%
- German 4.6%
- Japanese 3.6%
- Spanish 3.5%
- Portuguese 3.2%
- French 2.4%
- Dutch 1.9%
- Polish 1.4%
- Finnish 1.3%
- Other 8.6%
The AWS X-Ray application monitoring tool is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 52.9%
- .org 3.8%
- .de 2.5%
- .co.uk 2.3%
- .com.au 2.2%
- .com.br 2.1%
- .net 1.7%
- .jp 1.6%
- .io 1.6%
- Other 29.3%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing AWS X-Ray include business, marketing and merchandising, and motor vehicles.
- Business 14%
- Marketing/Merchandising 10.6%
- Motor Vehicles 9.9%
- Online Shopping 9%
- Entertainment 6.7%
- Internet Services 4.5%
- Fashion/Beauty 4.2%
- Education/Reference 3.4%
- General News 3.2%
- Other 34.5%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind AWS X-Ray?
AWS X-Ray is owned by Amazon.com, Inc., headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Can I use AWS X-Ray for free?
Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.
Which country uses AWS X-Ray the most?
The majority of AWS X-Ray users are from the United States.
Who uses AWS X-Ray?
According to our data, AWS X-Ray is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as eventbrite.com,
intuit.com, and
chase.com.
How does AWS X-Ray stack up against the competition?
AWS X-Ray is a moderately popular application monitoring tool, ranking ahead of 31 other application monitoring tools we track.
What are the alternatives to AWS X-Ray?
Alternatives and possible competitors to AWS X-Ray may include CloudWatch, 
Dynatrace, and 
Sentry.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.