aws x-ray configuration

The AWS X-Ray SDK sends data to the X-Ray daemon which buffers segments in a queue and uploads them to X-Ray in batches.

Note: You need both the X-Ray SDK and the X-Ray daemon on your systems

High-level configuration steps

Remember to have the:

• X-Ray SDK

• X-Ray daemon

• On premises & EC2 instances:

  • Install the X-Ray daemon on your EC2 instance or on-premises server

• Elastic Beanstalk

  • Install the X-Ray daemon on the EC2 instances inside your Beanstalk

• Docker on ECS:

  • Install the X-Ray daemon in its own Docker container

Annotations and indexing

• Annotations
  • When instrumenting your application you can record additional information
  about requests using annotations
• Key-value pairs
  • Annotations are key-value pairs that are indexed for use with filtering
  expressions
  • Filters enable searching and grouping of data