What is AWS X-Ray?

AWS X-Ray is a distributed tracing system that helps developers analyze and debug production and distributed applications, such as those built using microservices architecture. X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application and shows a map of application underlying components. It helps identify performance bottlenecks, understand dependencies between services, and pinpoint service issues. X-Ray integrates with Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, and other AWS services. It collects data about requests, provides visual service maps, and enables deep performance analysis and troubleshooting.