🆚 AWS X-Ray vs. Datadog

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Datadog is twice as popular as AWS X-Ray.
🌎 Datadog is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 AWS X-Ray is more popular in Italy, Finland, and South Africa.

AWS X-Ray

Datadog

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.

Datadog is a SaaS monitoring and security platform for infrastructure and applications.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

New York, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/xray/

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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 version ✔️1-day metric retention, up to 5 hosts

Pro$18+/host/month

Enterprise$27+/host/month

APM$36+/host/month

APM Pro$42+/host/month

APM Enterprise$48+/host/month

Log ingest$0.10+/GB

RUM$1.50+/1K sessions/month

Synthetic Browser Testing$12+/1K runs/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Datadog application monitoring tool is 2.1 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.

Datadog is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while AWS X-Ray is more popular in Italy, Finland, and South Africa.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Brazil

France

Japan

Indonesia

Australia

Netherlands

Canada

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.

⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the Application Monitoring category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Datadog is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while AWS X-Ray is more commonly used on motor vehicles, health, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Entertainment

Motor Vehicles

Travel

Internet Services

Fashion/Beauty