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No, X-Ray is no APM solution (yet). For example, it is missing End-User Experience Monitoring (for more information see http://www.apmdigest.com/gartners-5-dime
by the_aLgo 10y ago
No, X-Ray is no APM solution (yet). For example, it is missing End-User Experience Monitoring (for more information see http://www.apmdigest.com/gartners-5-dimensions-of-apm http://www.apmdigest.com/gartners-5-dimensions-of-apm).
The similarity to Dynatrace is that - like the PurePath - X-Ray enables distributed tracing. But the approach is different: whereas Dynatrace instruments your application using an agent^, X-Ray needs you to instrument an application using the provided SDK. Moreover, X-Ray seems to be limited to applications communicating via HTTP(S).
^ in the most cases