🆚 AWS X-Ray vs. Istio

Type

Application monitoring tool
Load balancer

About

AWS 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.

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Istio is an open-source service mesh that secures, connects, and monitors services in Kubernetes, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments.

It can run with Envoy proxies injected into each service or in a proxy-free ambient mode, and provides canary releases, load balancing, circuit breakers, mutual TLS authentication, and observability through metrics, logs, and distributed traces for Prometheus and Grafana.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

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 ✔️ Open source

Categories

Application Monitoring › Rank #11
Application Monitoring › Rank #9
Load Balancers › Rank #11

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Istio load balancer is 1.1 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.

Istio is more popular in Canada, Spain, and Brazil, while AWS X-Ray is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
Spain
Brazil
Japan
India
France
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Istio is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, entertainment, and travel, while AWS X-Ray is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and motor vehicles sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Sports
Internet Services
Motor Vehicles
Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,019
#1,106
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