Monitoring: AWS X-Ray

AWS X-Ray is a fully-managed service that provides end-to-end visibility into your application’s performance and behavior. It allows you to trace requests from beginning to end and analyze the performance of individual services and resources. With X-Ray, you can quickly identify and troubleshoot your application’s errors, latency, and bottlenecks.

Why should you monitor an AWS X-Ray?

Monitoring AWS X-Ray Insights is important for several reasons:

• Application Performance: X-Ray Insights provides detailed information on the performance and behavior of applications running on AWS. By monitoring Insights, you can quickly identify performance bottlenecks, diagnose issues, and optimize application performance.
• Troubleshooting: X-Ray Insights provides a centralized location for troubleshooting and debugging application issues. By monitoring Insights, you can quickly identify errors and exceptions, drill down to the root cause, and remediate problems faster.
• Continuous Improvement: X-Ray Insights provides a way to monitor and improve application performance continuously. By monitoring Insights, you can identify areas for improvement, track progress, and implement changes to improve application performance and user experience continually.

How does monitoring AWS X-Ray work?

Without further ado, marbot monitors AWS X-Ray. Here is what an alert delivered to a Microsoft Teams channel looks like.

And here is the same alert in Slack.

How do you set up monitoring of AWS X-Ray?

marbot works with Slack and Microsoft Teams. Please select your platform and follow the Getting Started guide.

• marbot for Slack
• marbot for Microsoft Teams

Which events does marbot monitor in detail?

marbot creates EventBridge rules to monitor the following events automatically.