🆚 AWS X-Ray vs. Azure Monitor

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Azure Monitor is four times more popular than AWS X-Ray.
🌎 Azure Monitor is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden.
🌎 AWS X-Ray is more popular in Brazil, Japan, and Korea.

AWS X-Ray

Azure Monitor

Type

Application monitoring tool

About

AWS X-Ray is an application performance management service for monitoring and tracing the components and services of AWS applications.

Azure Monitor is a solution that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry from various resources, including Windows Servers and VMs.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/xray/

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free tier ✔️100,000 traces recorded, 1,000,000 traces retrieved or scanned per month

Traces recorded$5.00/1M

Traces retrieved$0.50/1M

Traces scanned $0.50/1M

Free tier ✔️First 5 GB of analytics logs with 30-31 days of retention + platform metrics ingestion + 1M metric queries per month

Ingested logsAuxiliary$0.10/GB
Basic$0.50/GB
Analytics$2.30/GB

Querying Basic or Auxiliary Logs$0.005 per GB of data scanned

Custom metrics ingestion$0.16/10M samples ingested

Platform and custom metric queries beyond the free 1M$0.01/1K API calls

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Azure Monitor application monitoring tool is 4 times more popular than AWS X-Ray.

Total websites

Market share

Application Monitoring

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Azure Monitor is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden, while AWS X-Ray is more popular in Brazil, Japan, and Korea.

United States

United Kingdom

Sweden

Netherlands

Australia

Norway

Germany

Canada

Denmark

Finland

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Brazil in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 7th most popular in India in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Switzerland in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Finland in the Application Monitoring category.

🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Application Monitoring category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in Finland in the Application Monitoring category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Azure Monitor is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and public information, while AWS X-Ray is more commonly used on entertainment and motor vehicles sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Public Information

Online Shopping

Health

Finance/Banking

Education/Reference

Government/Military

Travel

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO