AWS X-Ray console

Use the AWS X-Ray console to view a map of services and associated traces for requests that your applications serve, and to configure groups and sampling rules which affect how traces are sent to X-Ray.

Note

CloudWatch now includes Application Signals, which can discover and monitor your application services, clients, Synthetics canaries, and service dependencies. Use Application Signals to see a list or visual map of your services, view health metrics based on your service level objectives (SLOs), and drill down to see correlated X-Ray traces for more detailed troubleshooting.

The X-Ray Service map and CloudWatch ServiceLens map have been combined into the X-Ray trace map within the Amazon CloudWatch console. Open the CloudWatch console and choose Trace Map under X-Ray traces from the left navigation pane.

The primary X-Ray console page is the trace map, which is a visual representation of the JSON service graph that X-Ray generates from the trace data generated by your applications. The map consists of service nodes for each application in your account that serves requests, upstream client nodes that represent the origins of the requests, and downstream service nodes that represent web services and resources used by an application while processing a request. There are additional pages for viewing traces and trace details, and configuring groups and sampling rules.

Exploring the X-Ray console

• Using the X-Ray trace map
• Viewing traces and trace details
• Using filter expressions
• Cross-account tracing
• Tracing event-driven applications
• Using latency histograms
• Using X-Ray insights
• Interacting with the Analytics console
• Configuring groups
• Configuring sampling rules
• Console deep linking