X-Ray

Developer Associate

  • A service that collects data about your requests that your app serves
  • Provides tools you can use to view, filter, and gain insight into that data to identify issues
  • You can see details for requests and responses, but also about calls your app makes to downstream AWS resources
  • Need to have the AWS X-Ray SDK installed in your app to send this information to X-Ray
  • The X-Ray SDK provides you with intercepts to trace HTTP requests, handlers to instrument AWS SDK clients that your app uses, and an HTTP client used to instrument calls to other internal and external HTTP services (know this for exam!!)
  • Integrates with:
  • Supports these languages:
    • Java, Go, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, .NET