intermediate~2.5h
AWS X-Ray & Health Dashboard: Tracing & Service Health
Distributed tracing for pinpointing exactly which service/call in a request chain is slow or failing, plus the two dashboards for knowing whether an issue is AWS's fault or yours.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain what a trace and a segment/subsegment represent in X-Ray
- •Describe how X-Ray helps diagnose latency in a microservices architecture that CloudWatch metrics alone can't pinpoint
- •Distinguish AWS Health Dashboard (account-specific operational issues) from AWS Service Health Dashboard (public, AWS-wide status)
- •Understand the X-Ray SDK instrumentation model and its relationship to CloudWatch
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