X-Ray

Introduction

• A visual analysis of applications / microservices / distributed systems.

• Can integrate with:

  • EC2: install X-Ray agent

  • ECS: install X-Ray agent or pull X-Ray Docker image alongside your application

  • Lambda

  • Beanstalk: installed out-of-box

  • API Gateway: helpful to debug errors (such as: 504 - Gateway Timeout)

• X-Ray agent / servies needs IAM permissions to X-Ray.