X-Ray

• Debugging in Production, the good old way: • Test locally

• Add log statements everywhere • Re-deploy in production

• Log formats differ across applications and log analysis is hard.

• Debugging: one big monolith “easy”, distributed services “hard”

• No common views of your entire architecture

• Enter... AWS X-Ray!

Visual analysis of our applications

Advantages

• Troubleshooting performance (bottlenecks)

• Understand dependencies in a microservice architecture

• Pinpoint service issues

• Review request behavior

• Find errors and exceptions

• Are we meeting time SLA?

• Where I am throttled?

• Identify users that are impacted

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