Distributed Tracing with AWS X-Ray
Implement and interpret distributed tracing with AWS X-Ray to visualize the flow of requests through your serverless architecture and identify performance bottlenecks.
Tracing Serverless Requests
In serverless applications, a single user request often travels through many services, like an API Gateway, multiple Lambda functions, and databases. Understanding this journey can be complex!
This is where distributed tracing comes in. It's a technique to track a request as it flows across these different services, providing a complete end-to-end view.
Meet AWS X-Ray
AWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications built using microservices. It provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application.
With X-Ray, you can:
- Visualize service interactions.
- Identify performance bottlenecks.
- Debug errors across distributed systems.
All lessons in this course
- Advanced IAM Policies and Permissions
- Secrets Management with AWS Secrets Manager
- Distributed Tracing with AWS X-Ray
- Structured Logging and Correlation IDs