# Amazon X-Ray Documentation

Amazon X-Ray makes it easy for developers to analyze the behavior of their distributed applications by providing request tracing, exception collection, and profiling capabilities.  

- [Developer Guide](/en_us/xray/latest/devguide/aws-xray.html): Describes how to get started and instrument your applications using Amazon X-Ray.
- [API Reference](/en_us/xray/latest/api/Welcome.html): Describes all API operations for Amazon X-Ray in detail. Also provides details of request and response syntax and errors for the supported web services protocols.

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