Document History for Amazon X-Ray
The following table describes the important changes to the documentation for Amazon X-Ray. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
Latest documentation update: February 8, 2023
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Added functionality | X-Ray now logs data events, including | March 7, 2024 |
Added functionality |
X-Ray now supports trace IDs created via OpenTelemetry or any other framework which conforms to the
W3C Trace Context specification | October 25, 2023 |
Added functionality | You can now configure Amazon SNS active tracing, enabling you to trace and analyze requests as they travel through your Amazon SNS topics. For more information, see Amazon SNS and Amazon X-Ray. | February 8, 2023 |
Updated X-Ray SDK for Node.js topic | Added details for instrumenting clients using the Amazon SDK for JavaScript V3. For details, see Tracing Amazon SDK calls with the X-Ray SDK for Node.js. | February 7, 2023 |
Updated IAM managed policy details | Added IAM permission for cross-account observability to the | February 7, 2023 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray now supports cross-account observability, enabling you to monitor and troubleshoot applications that span across multiple accounts within an Amazon Web Services Region. For details, see Cross-account tracing. | November 27, 2022 |
Added functionality | You can now view linked traces between message producers, an Amazon SQS queue, and consumers, providing a connected view of traces sent from event-driven applications. For more information, see tracing event-driven applications. | November 20, 2022 |
Updated IAM managed policy details | Added IAM permission for listing resource policies to the | November 15, 2022 |
Updated IAM console permissions and managed policy details | The set of IAM permissions the X-Ray console uses has been updated, along with the description of the
| November 11, 2022 |
Added Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Ruby | Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a single set of open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics. ADOT Ruby enables you to instrument your Ruby application for X-Ray and other tracing back-ends. For more information, see Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry Ruby. | February 7, 2022 |
Added functionality | You can now view traces and configure X-Ray from the CloudWatch console. For more information, see X-Ray console. | January 24, 2022 |
Integrated CloudWatch RUM | With Amazon X-Ray and CloudWatch RUM, you can analyze and debug the request path starting from end users of your application through downstream Amazon managed services. For more information, see CloudWatch RUM and Amazon X-Ray. | December 3, 2021 |
Integrated Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry | The Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a single set of open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics. ADOT enables you to instrument your application for X-Ray and other tracing back-ends. For more information, see Instrumenting your app. | September 23, 2021 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray now integrates with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, enabling resources in your Amazon VPC to communicate with the X-Ray service without going through the public internet. For more information, see Using Amazon X-Ray with VPC endpoints. | May 20, 2021 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray now integrates with Amazon CloudFormation, enabling you to provision and configure X-Ray resources. For more information, see Creating X-Ray resources with CloudFormation. | May 6, 2021 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray now integrates with Amazon EventBridge to trace events that are passed through EventBridge. This provides users with a more complete view of their system. For more information, see Amazon EventBridge and Amazon X-Ray. | March 2, 2021 |
Added daemon to ECR | The daemon can now be downloaded from Amazon ECR. For more information, see Downloading the daemon. | March 1, 2021 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray now supports insights related notifications to Amazon EventBridge. This allows you to take automatic actions on insights using EventBridge. For more information, see Insights Notifications. | October 15, 2020 |
Added Downloadable Daemons | Amazon X-Ray introduces support daemon for Linux ARM64. For more information, see Amazon X-Ray daemonbrazil ws | October 1, 2020 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray now supports active integration with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics. This allows you to see details about a Synthetics canary client node such as response time and status. You can also do analysis in the Analytics console based on information from a Synthetics canary client node. For more information, see Debugging CloudWatch synthetics canaries using X-Ray . | September 24, 2020 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray now supports tracing end-to-end workflows for Amazon Step Functions. You can visualize the components of your state machine, identify performance bottlenecks, and troubleshoot requests that resulted in an error. For more information, see Amazon Step Functions and Amazon X-Ray. | September 14, 2020 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray introduces insights to continuously analyze trace data in your account to identify emergent issues in your applications. Insights records incidents and track incident impact until resolution. For more information, see Using insights in the Amazon X-Ray console | September 3, 2020 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray introduces the Java auto-instrumentation agent, enabling customers to collect trace data without having to modify existing Java-based application. You can now trace Java web and servlet based applications with minimal configuration change and no code change. For more information, see Amazon X-Ray auto-instrumentation agent for Java. | September 3, 2020 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray has added a new Groups page to the X-Ray console to help ease the creation and management of groups of traces. For more information, see Configuring groups in the X-Ray console. | August 24, 2020 |
Added functionality | Amazon X-Ray now lets you add tags to groups and sampling rules. You can also control access to groups and sampling rules based on tags. For more information, see Tagging X-Ray sampling rules and groups and Managing access to X-Ray groups and sampling rules based on tags. | August 24, 2020 |