Amazon X-Ray
AWS X-Ray is a distributed tracing service that helps developers analyze and debug production applications, providing end-to-end visibility into requests as they travel through the application. X-Ray provides service maps, trace analysis, sampling rules, group filtering, and AI-powered insights for identifying performance bottlenecks and errors across microservices and serverless architectures.
APIs
Amazon X-Ray REST API
RESTful API for AWS X-Ray distributed tracing operations including trace retrieval, service map generation, sampling rule management, group management, and insights analysis for...
Capabilities
Amazon X-Ray Distributed Tracing
Unified workflow for developers and operations teams to analyze distributed traces, visualize service maps, manage sampling rules, and investigate application performance insigh...
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Trace requests as they travel across services, microservices, and serverless functions to identify bottlenecks and errors.
Automatically generate visual service maps showing all connected services and their health status and latency.
Create groups with filter expressions to organize and analyze subsets of traces based on service names, URLs, or annotations.
Configurable sampling rules to control the percentage of requests traced, balancing coverage with cost.
AI-powered automatic detection of anomalies and performance issues with root cause analysis across the service map.
Native tracing support across Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, and 200+ other AWS services.
X-Ray SDKs for Java, Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, and .NET for custom application instrumentation.
Deep integration with Amazon CloudWatch for correlating traces with metrics, logs, and alarms.
Use Cases
Trace requests across microservices to identify which service is causing latency or errors in distributed applications.
Monitor Lambda function execution chains and identify cold start impacts and downstream service bottlenecks.
Use trace data and service maps to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in production applications.
Drill into traces to understand the exact call chain that caused an error or latency spike.
Track end-to-end latency and error rates across services to ensure application SLAs are being met.
Integrations
Automatic tracing of Lambda function invocations and downstream calls.
Native tracing of API Gateway requests through backend services.
Correlation of traces with CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms.
Service mesh integration for automatic tracing of Envoy-based microservices.
X-Ray supports the OpenTelemetry standard via the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry.