Category: 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 […]

This post was written by Andy Powell, Partner Solutions Architect. For developers, tracing and instrumenting code is one of the most valuable tools when debugging code. When you are developing locally, you can use local debugging and profiling tools, but when you deploy an application to the cloud, the task is more challenging. In this […]

This post was written by James Bowman, Software Development Engineer, AWS X-Ray AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications and underlying services in production. You can identify and analyze root-causes of performance issues and errors, understand customer impact, and extract statistical aggregations (such as histograms) for optimization. In this blog post, I will […]

AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production applications built using microservices or serverless architectures and quantify customer impact. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing and identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors. You can use these insights to identify issues and opportunities […]