# AWS X-Ray: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 2 categories by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/aws-x-ray

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Observability platforms](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/observability-platforms/index.md) | 0% | 24 | 0% | 2 |
| [Application performance monitoring](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/application-performance-monitoring/index.md) | 0% | 44 | 0% | 1 |

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named AWS X-Ray, from 6 of the 7 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- newrelic.com: 4
- bigeye.com: 2
- github.com: 2
- logz.io: 2
- reddit.com: 2
- research.isg-one.com: 2
- research.oz.spotlightar.com: 2
- sherlocks.ai: 2
- akamai.com: 1
- augmentcode.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://bigeye.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-data-observability-platforms-rfi: 2
- https://github.com/nubenetes/observability-platforms-comparison/blob/main/docs/COMPARISON_MATRICES.md: 2
- https://newrelic.com/resources/report/observability-forecast/2024/state-of-observability/strategy-and-organization: 2
- https://reddit.com/r/Observability/comments/1plqnec/best_observabilty_platform: 2
- https://research.isg-one.com/buyers-guide/analytics_and_data/data_observability/2024: 2
- https://research.oz.spotlightar.com/reports/magic-quadrant-observability-platforms-2024/leaders: 2
- https://sherlocks.ai/blog/how-to-choose-observability-platform-2026: 2
- https://akamai.com/blog/developers/why-observability-tools-tend-to-fail-at-scale: 1

## In its own words

What AWS X-Ray's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: an AWS service for analyzing the execution and performance behavior of distributed applications (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-support-for-aws-x-ray)
- For: customers implement business processes as batch workloads (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/configure-aws-x-ray-tracing-aws-batch-jobs)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.