🆚 AWS X-Ray vs. Pingdom

Type

Application monitoring tool
Application monitoring tool

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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Pingdom is a SaaS website uptime and performance monitoring solution that tracks the availability and user experience of websites and web applications.

It provides uptime checks from over 60 global polling locations, page speed analysis, synthetic transaction monitoring for actions such as logins or checkouts, real user monitoring that measures performance from visitors' browsers, and instant alerts via email or SMS.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
Austin, Texas, 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 version ❌
Synthetic Monitoring$15+/month
Real User Monitoring$15+/month
EnterpriseCustom

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Pingdom application monitoring tool is 1.2 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.

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

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Pingdom is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while AWS X-Ray is more commonly used on entertainment, motor vehicles, and general news sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Finance/Banking
Travel
Motor Vehicles

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,019
#1,106
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Name
Rank
#1,206
#1,589
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See also

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