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Author: Nizar Tyrewalla
Nizar Tyrewalla is a Principal Product Manager in AWS focused on monitoring distributed applications built using microservices architecture. Currently, he is leading the distributed tracing service with AWS X-Ray and ingestion of Observability data using open source tools and frameworks like OpenTelemetry.
Debugging with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics and AWS X-Ray
Today, AWS X-Ray launches support for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, enabling developers to trace end-to-end requests from configurable scripts called “canaries”. These canaries run the test script to monitor web endpoints and APIs using modular, light-weight tests that run 24×7, once per minute. It continuously captures the behavior and availability of the endpoint or URL being […]