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How Ivy compares
Ivy is a narrow tool on purpose. It traces AWS Lambda functions (Node.js today) with full payloads, catches failures outside the handler, and lets coding agents read production through MCP, for €5 per million traces or free when self-hosted. Broader platforms do more. These pages say where each tool is the better choice.
Ivy vs Lumigo
Looking for a Lumigo alternative before the Lumigo platform shuts down on December 31, 2026? Compare Ivy and Lumigo for AWS Lambda tracing: features, pricing as of November 2026, and how to migrate.
Ivy vs Datadog
Compare Ivy and Datadog Serverless Monitoring for AWS Lambda tracing. Features, list prices as of November 2026 (per active function plus per traced invocation vs €5 per million traces), and when each fits.
Ivy vs AWS X-Ray
Compare Ivy with AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch Application Signals for Lambda tracing. Payloads, sampling, failures outside the handler, pricing as of November 2026, and the X-Ray SDK maintenance timeline.
Ivy vs Sentry
Compare Ivy and Sentry for AWS Lambda. Sentry is error and performance monitoring across your whole stack; Ivy traces Lambda invocations with payloads and AWS-aware spans. Features and pricing as of November 2026.
Ivy vs Baselime
Baselime joined Cloudflare in 2024. If you used Baselime for AWS Lambda observability, compare it with Ivy, an open-source Lambda tracer with payloads, failures outside the handler and an MCP server.
Migrate from Lumigo
A practical guide to moving AWS Lambda tracing from Lumigo to Ivy before Lumigo shuts down on December 31, 2026. Remove the Lumigo layer and variables, attach Ivy, and map transactions, issues and alerts.
At a glance
As of November 2026, from each vendor's public pages (linked on each comparison).
| Feature | Ivy | Lumigo | Datadog Serverless | AWS X-Ray | Sentry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focus | Lambda tracing and errors, for people and agents | Serverless and Kubernetes observability | Full observability platform | AWS-native distributed tracing | Error and performance monitoring |
| Pricing unit | Traces (invocations) | Traces, by plan | Active functions plus traced invocations | Traces recorded and scanned | Errors and spans, by plan |
| Free tier | 100,000 traces a month | 150,000 traces a month (Basic plan) | Free trial | 100,000 traces recorded a month | 5,000 errors and 5M spans (Developer) |
| Open source, self-hostable | Yes (MIT) | No | No | No | Self-hosted version available |
| Lambda runtimes | Node.js (others through OTLP) | Node.js, Python, Java, Go | Most Lambda runtimes | Most Lambda runtimes (OpenTelemetry) | Node.js and Python integrations |
| Status | Active | Shuts down December 31, 2026 | Active | SDKs in maintenance mode, OpenTelemetry recommended | Active |
Choosing
- You want Lambda traces with payloads, cheaply, and your coding agent in the loop: Ivy.
- You need logs, metrics, infrastructure, many runtimes and enterprise alerting in one place: Datadog, or another full platform.
- You want to stay entirely inside AWS: X-Ray and CloudWatch Application Signals.
- Your main need is error tracking across frontend and backend: Sentry.
- You're on Lumigo: its platform shuts down at the end of 2026. Read Ivy vs Lumigo and the migration guide.