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Using Transaction Search with Amazon CloudFormation

You can use Amazon CloudFormation to enable and configure X-Ray Transaction Search.

Prerequisites

Enabling Transaction Search

To enable Transaction Search using CloudFormation, you need to create the following two resources.

Template examples

The following example includes both the resource policy and the TransactionSearchConfig.

YAML

Resources:
  LogsResourcePolicy:
    Type: AWS::Logs::ResourcePolicy
    Properties:
      PolicyName: TransactionSearchAccess
      PolicyDocument: !Sub >
        {
          "Version": "2012-10-17",
          "Statement": [
            {
              "Sid": "TransactionSearchXRayAccess",
              "Effect": "Allow",
              "Principal": {
                "Service": "xray.amazonaws.com"
              },
              "Action": "logs:PutLogEvents",
              "Resource": [
                "arn:${AWS::Partition}:logs:${AWS::Region}:${AWS::AccountId}:log-group:aws/spans:*",
                "arn:${AWS::Partition}:logs:${AWS::Region}:${AWS::AccountId}:log-group:/aws/application-signals/data:*"
              ],
              "Condition": {
                "ArnLike": {
                  "aws:SourceArn": "arn:${AWS::Partition}:xray:${AWS::Region}:${AWS::AccountId}:*"
                },
                "StringEquals": {
                  "aws:SourceAccount": "${AWS::AccountId}"
                }
              }
            }
          ]
        }

  XRayTransactionSearchConfig:
    Type: AWS::XRay::TransactionSearchConfig
    Properties:
      IndexingPercentage: 10

JSON

{
    "Resources": {
        "LogsResourcePolicy": {
            "Type": "AWS::Logs::ResourcePolicy",
            "Properties": {
                "PolicyName": "TransactionSearchAccess",
                "PolicyDocument": {
                    "Fn::Sub": "{\n  \"Version\": \"2012-10-17\",\n  \"Statement\": [\n    {\n      \"Sid\": \"TransactionSearchXRayAccess\",\n      \"Effect\": \"Allow\",\n      \"Principal\": {\n        \"Service\": \"xray.amazonaws.com\"\n      },\n      \"Action\": \"logs:PutLogEvents\",\n      \"Resource\": [\n        \"arn:${AWS::Partition}:logs:${AWS::Region}:${AWS::AccountId}:log-group:aws/spans:*\",\n        \"arn:${AWS::Partition}:logs:${AWS::Region}:${AWS::AccountId}:log-group:/aws/application-signals/data:*\"\n      ],\n      \"Condition\": {\n        \"ArnLike\": {\n          \"aws:SourceArn\": \"arn:${AWS::Partition}:xray:${AWS::Region}:${AWS::AccountId}:*\"\n        },\n        \"StringEquals\": {\n          \"aws:SourceAccount\": \"${AWS::AccountId}\"\n        }\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}"
                }
            }
        },
        "XRayTransactionSearchConfig": {
            "Type": "AWS::XRay::TransactionSearchConfig",
            "Properties": {
                "IndexingPercentage": 20
            }
        }
    }
}

Here is an example using Amazon CDK in TypeScript.

CDK

import * as cdk from '@aws-cdk/core';
import * as logs from '@aws-cdk/aws-logs';
import * as xray from '@aws-cdk/aws-xray';

export class XRayTransactionSearchStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope: cdk.Construct, id: string, props?: cdk.StackProps) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    // Create the resource policy
    const transactionSearchAccess = new logs.CfnResourcePolicy(this, 'XRayLogResourcePolicy', {
      policyName: 'TransactionSearchAccess',
      policyDocument: JSON.stringify({
        Version: '2012-10-17',
        Statement: [
          {
            Sid: 'TransactionSearchXRayAccess',
            Effect: 'Allow',
            Principal: {
              Service: 'xray.amazonaws.com',
            },
            Action: 'logs:PutLogEvents',
            Resource: [
              `arn:${this.partition}:logs:${this.region}:${this.account}:log-group:aws/spans:*`,
              `arn:${this.partition}:logs:${this.region}:${this.account}:log-group:/aws/application-signals/data:*`,
            ],
            Condition: {
              ArnLike: {
                'aws:SourceArn': `arn:${this.partition}:xray:${this.region}:${this.account}:*`,
              },
              StringEquals: {
                'aws:SourceAccount': this.account,
              },
            },
          },
        ],
      }),
    });

    // Create the TransactionSearchConfig with dependency
    const transactionSearchConfig = new xray.CfnTransactionSearchConfig(this, 'XRayTransactionSearchConfig', {
      indexingPercentage: 10,
    });

    // Add the dependency to ensure Resource Policy is created first
    transactionSearchConfig.addDependsOn(transactionSearchAccess);
  }
} 
        
      

Verifying the configuration

After deploying your Amazon CloudFormation stack, you can verify the configuration using the Amazon CLI.

aws xray get-trace-segment-destination

A successful configuration will return the following.

{
    "Destination": "CloudWatchLogs",
    "Status": "ACTIVE"
}