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What is AWS X-Ray?

What is AWS X-Ray?

- [Instructor] In this video, we are going to discuss another monitoring tool called X-Ray. AWS X-Ray is a service that helps you understand and visualize how your applications and their underlying components are performing. It provides an end-to-end view of requests as it travels through your application, including their interactions with various AWS services and external resources. With X-Ray, you can track the flow of requests, identify bottlenecks, and analyze the root cause of performance issues. Some of the key features and benefits of AWS X-Ray include distributed tracing. X-Ray traces request as they flow through your distributed application providing a complete picture of the entire request lifecycle. X-Ray also generates a dynamic service map that shows how different components and services interact with each other, helping you understand dependencies and visualize the architecture. X-Ray also collects…

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