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API Tracing

Understand how to enable and use AWS X-Ray tracing within API Gateway to monitor requests flowing through multiple serverless components. Learn how tracing visualizes request paths, consolidates scattered logs, and simplifies debugging in microservice architectures.

What's an AWS X-Ray?

As the name suggests, Amazon X-Ray helps us see through the complete stack and look for what we need to know. One problem with microservice and serverless architecture is that the logs are scattered. As a result, tracking how different services process a particular request is challenging. AWS X-Ray makes this possible. It helps us trace a single request as it passes through different services and components of the system. ...