6: AWS X-Ray Concepts
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What is it?
- Useful in microservices environment
- Good for troubleshooting, performance tuning
- X-ray daemon sits on servers and monitors requests
- X-ray gives a GUI node graph view of request flows
- Detailed info about requests/responses, calls to downstream resources
Study Notes:
- X-ray analyzes and debug distributed apps / microservices
- “End to end” is a keyword
- Find issues + optimize
What’s an x-ray “trace”?
- A set of datapoints sharing a trace ID
What’s an x-ray “segment”?
- Holds data for a single component of an app
Color Coding
- Green: Success
- Red: Server faults
- Yellow: Client errors
- Purple: Throttling errors