# Amazon X-Ray **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-xray/ **Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/xray/ **APIs profiled:** 32 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. ## Kin Score — 52.2 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.2). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 68.5 | | Contract Quality | 74.5 | | Governance | 25.0 | | Contract Governance | 25.0 | | Operational Transparency | 26.3 | | Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 | | Commercial Clarity | 51.3 | | Access Clarity | 51.3 | ## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (32) - **Amazon X-Ray CreateGroup API** — The CreateGroup API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for creategroup. - **Amazon X-Ray CreateSamplingRule API** — The CreateSamplingRule API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for createsamplingrule. - **Amazon X-Ray DeleteGroup API** — The DeleteGroup API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for deletegroup. - **Amazon X-Ray DeleteResourcePolicy API** — The DeleteResourcePolicy API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for deleteresourcepolicy. - **Amazon X-Ray DeleteSamplingRule API** — The DeleteSamplingRule API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for deletesamplingrule. - **Amazon X-Ray EncryptionConfig API** — The EncryptionConfig API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for encryptionconfig. - **Amazon X-Ray GetGroup API** — The GetGroup API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for getgroup. - **Amazon X-Ray GetSamplingRules API** — The GetSamplingRules API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for getsamplingrules. - **Amazon X-Ray Groups API** — The Groups API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for groups. - **Amazon X-Ray Insight API** — The Insight API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for insight. - **Amazon X-Ray InsightEvents API** — The InsightEvents API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for insightevents. - **Amazon X-Ray InsightImpactGraph API** — The InsightImpactGraph API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for insightimpactgraph. - **Amazon X-Ray InsightSummaries API** — The InsightSummaries API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for insightsummaries. - **Amazon X-Ray ListResourcePolicies API** — The ListResourcePolicies API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for listresourcepolicies. - **Amazon X-Ray ListTagsForResource API** — The ListTagsForResource API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for listtagsforresource. - **Amazon X-Ray PutEncryptionConfig API** — The PutEncryptionConfig API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for putencryptionconfig. - **Amazon X-Ray PutResourcePolicy API** — The PutResourcePolicy API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for putresourcepolicy. - **Amazon X-Ray Sampling API** — The Sampling API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for sampling. - **Amazon X-Ray SamplingStatisticSummaries API** — The SamplingStatisticSummaries API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for samplingstatisticsummaries. - **Amazon X-Ray SamplingTargets API** — The SamplingTargets API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for samplingtargets. - **Amazon X-Ray Service Graph API** — The Service Graph API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for service graph. - **Amazon X-Ray ServiceGraph API** — The ServiceGraph API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for servicegraph. - **Amazon X-Ray TagResource API** — The TagResource API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for tagresource. - **Amazon X-Ray TelemetryRecords API** — The TelemetryRecords API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for telemetryrecords. - **Amazon X-Ray TimeSeriesServiceStatistics API** — The TimeSeriesServiceStatistics API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for timeseriesservicestatistics. - **Amazon X-Ray TraceGraph API** — The TraceGraph API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for tracegraph. - **Amazon X-Ray Traces API** — The Traces API from Amazon X-Ray — 2 operation(s) for traces. - **Amazon X-Ray TraceSegments API** — The TraceSegments API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for tracesegments. - **Amazon X-Ray TraceSummaries API** — The TraceSummaries API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for tracesummaries. - **Amazon X-Ray UntagResource API** — The UntagResource API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for untagresource. - **Amazon X-Ray UpdateGroup API** — The UpdateGroup API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for updategroup. - **Amazon X-Ray UpdateSamplingRule API** — The UpdateSamplingRule API from Amazon X-Ray — 1 operation(s) for updatesamplingrule. ## Agentic access (1) - **Amazon Xray Agentic Access** — 35 operations · 35 acting ## Security (4) - **Amazon Xray Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme - **Amazon Xray Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC - **Amazon Xray Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published - **Amazon Xray Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140 ## Plans (1) - **Amazon Xray Plans Pricing** ## Use cases (5) - **Microservices Debugging** — Trace requests across microservices to identify which service is causing latency or errors in distributed applications. - **Serverless Application Monitoring** — Monitor Lambda function execution chains and identify cold start impacts and downstream service bottlenecks. - **Performance Optimization** — Use trace data and service maps to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in production applications. - **Root Cause Analysis** — Drill into traces to understand the exact call chain that caused an error or latency spike. - **SLA Compliance Monitoring** — Track end-to-end latency and error rates across services to ensure application SLAs are being met. ## Tags Application Performance, Debugging, Distributed Tracing, Monitoring, Observability --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-xray/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.