AWS X-Ray
What is AWS X-Ray?
AWS X-Ray helps to analyze and debug production systems in distributed environments. AWS X-Ray is a method used to profile and monitor applications, mostly built using microservice architecture.
Using X-Ray service features, it’s very easy for a user to troubleshoot and find the root cause of slowness of the system, including other performance-related errors.
X-Ray components:
● Daemon: a unique application that collects related segment data.
● Segments: provides resource names, requests information.
● Subsegments: This provides granular details about downstream calls.
● Service Graph: Visual representation of micro-service response or failure.
● Traces: Collects all segments created from a single request.
● Sampling: Algorithm which decides which request needs to be traced.
● Filter Expressions: easier to deep dive to understand the particular path.
Features:
● Supports all language (Go, NodeJS, Ruby, Java, Phyton, ASP.NET, PHP)
● It supports AWS service integration with Lambda, API Gateway, App Mesh, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, AWS Config, EB, ELB, SNS, SQS, EC2, ECS, Fargate.
● Helps in improving application performance.
● Easy to discover application issues with insights provided by X-Ray.
● It helps in tracking user requests as they travel through the entire application.
Pricing:
● Traces recorded/retrieved/scanned will cost $.50 per 1 million requests beyond the free tier.
