🆚 AWS X-Ray vs. Instana

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 AWS X-Ray is much more popular than Instana.
🌎 AWS X-Ray is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Instana is more popular in France, Turkey, and Hungary.

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.

Instana is a fully automated application performance management solution currently owned by IBM.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Armonk, New York, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/xray/

instana.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 version ❌

Observability Essentials (minimum order quantity: 10 hosts)$240+/host/year

Observability Standard (minimum order quantity: 10 hosts)$900+/host/year

Synthetic Browser Test$12/1K executions/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The AWS X-Ray application monitoring tool is 7 times more popular than Instana.

Total websites

Market share

Application Monitoring

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

AWS X-Ray is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Instana is more popular in France, Turkey, and Hungary.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Brazil

Australia

Japan

Netherlands

Finland

Italy

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.

⭐ 10th most popular in France in the Application Monitoring category.
🔥 16th most popular in Germany in the Application Monitoring category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

AWS X-Ray is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Instana is more commonly used on dating and personals, and public information sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Motor Vehicles

Entertainment

Internet Services

Travel

Fashion/Beauty

Education/Reference

General News