Document History for AWS X-Ray - AWS X-Ray

Document History for AWS X-Ray

The following table describes the important changes to the documentation for AWS X-Ray. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

Latest documentation update: February 8, 2023

ChangeDescriptionDate

Added functionality

X-Ray now logs data events, including PutTraceSegments, GetTraceSummaries, and BatchGetTraces to AWS CloudTrail. X-Ray also now logs the GetSamplingStatisticSummaries management event to CloudTrail. For more information, see Logging X-Ray API calls with AWS CloudTrail.

March 7, 2024

Added functionality

X-Ray now supports trace IDs created via OpenTelemetry or any other framework which conforms to the W3C Trace Context specification. For more information, see Sending trace data to X-Ray.

October 25, 2023

Added functionality

You can now configure Amazon SNS active tracing, enabling you to trace and analyze requests as they travel through your Amazon SNS topics. For more information, see Amazon SNS and AWS X-Ray.

February 8, 2023

Updated X-Ray SDK for Node.js topic

Added details for instrumenting clients using the AWS SDK for JavaScript V3. For details, see Tracing AWS SDK calls with the X-Ray SDK for Node.js.

February 7, 2023

Updated IAM managed policy details

Added IAM permission for cross-account observability to the AWSXRayReadOnlyAccess, AWSXRayFullAccess and AWSXrayCrossAccountSharingConfiguration managed policies. For details, see IAM managed policies for X-Ray.

February 7, 2023

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray now supports cross-account observability, enabling you to monitor and troubleshoot applications that span across multiple accounts within an AWS Region. For details, see Cross-account tracing.

November 27, 2022

Added functionality

You can now view linked traces between message producers, an Amazon SQS queue, and consumers, providing a connected view of traces sent from event-driven applications. For more information, see tracing event-driven applications.

November 20, 2022

Updated IAM managed policy details

Added IAM permission for listing resource policies to the AWSXRayReadOnlyAccess managed policy. For details, see IAM managed policies for X-Ray.

November 15, 2022

Updated IAM console permissions and managed policy details

The set of IAM permissions the X-Ray console uses has been updated, along with the description of the AWSXRayReadOnlyAccess managed policy. For details, see Using the X-Ray console.

November 11, 2022

Added AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Ruby

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a single set of open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics. ADOT Ruby enables you to instrument your Ruby application for X-Ray and other tracing back-ends. For more information, see AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Ruby.

February 7, 2022

Added functionality

You can now view traces and configure X-Ray from the CloudWatch console. For more information, see X-Ray console.

January 24, 2022

Integrated CloudWatch RUM

With AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch RUM, you can analyze and debug the request path starting from end users of your application through downstream AWS managed services. For more information, see CloudWatch RUM and AWS X-Ray.

December 3, 2021

Integrated AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a single set of open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics. ADOT enables you to instrument your application for X-Ray and other tracing back-ends. For more information, see Instrumenting your app.

September 23, 2021

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray now integrates with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, enabling resources in your Amazon VPC to communicate with the X-Ray service without going through the public internet. For more information, see Using AWS X-Ray with VPC endpoints.

May 20, 2021

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray now integrates with AWS CloudFormation, enabling you to provision and configure X-Ray resources. For more information, see Creating X-Ray resources with CloudFormation.

May 6, 2021

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray now integrates with Amazon EventBridge to trace events that are passed through EventBridge. This provides users with a more complete view of their system. For more information, see Amazon EventBridge and AWS X-Ray.

March 2, 2021

Added daemon to ECR

The daemon can now be downloaded from Amazon ECR. For more information, see Downloading the daemon.

March 1, 2021

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray now supports insights related notifications to Amazon EventBridge. This allows you to take automatic actions on insights using EventBridge. For more information, see Insights Notifications.

October 15, 2020

Added Downloadable Daemons

AWS X-Ray introduces support daemon for Linux ARM64. For more information, see AWS X-Ray daemonbrazil ws

October 1, 2020

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray now supports active integration with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics. This allows you to see details about a Synthetics canary client node such as response time and status. You can also do analysis in the Analytics console based on information from a Synthetics canary client node. For more information, see Debugging CloudWatch synthetics canaries using X-Ray .

September 24, 2020

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray now supports tracing end-to-end workflows for AWS Step Functions. You can visualize the components of your state machine, identify performance bottlenecks, and troubleshoot requests that resulted in an error. For more information, see AWS Step Functions and AWS X-Ray.

September 14, 2020

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray introduces insights to continuously analyze trace data in your account to identify emergent issues in your applications. Insights records incidents and track incident impact until resolution. For more information, see Using insights in the AWS X-Ray console

September 3, 2020

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray introduces the Java auto-instrumentation agent, enabling customers to collect trace data without having to modify existing Java-based application. You can now trace Java web and servlet based applications with minimal configuration change and no code change. For more information, see AWS X-Ray auto-instrumentation agent for Java.

September 3, 2020

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray has added a new Groups page to the X-Ray console to help ease the creation and management of groups of traces. For more information, see Configuring groups in the X-Ray console.

August 24, 2020

Added functionality

AWS X-Ray now lets you add tags to groups and sampling rules. You can also control access to groups and sampling rules based on tags. For more information, see Tagging X-Ray sampling rules and groups and Managing access to X-Ray groups and sampling rules based on tags.

August 24, 2020