AWS X-Ray Getting Started

Course description

In this course, you will learn the benefits and technical concepts of AWS X-Ray. Using X-Ray, developers and operators can analyze the behavior of their distributed production applications with end-to-end tracing capabilities. X-Ray helps to identify performance bottlenecks, edge case errors, and other hard-to-detect issues.

In this course, you will also review the basics of X-Ray and the business and technical challenges it can solve.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and knowledge checks.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

• Understand the basic technical concepts of X-Ray. 
• Understand both the business and technical challenges of X-Ray. 
• Learn how to use X-Ray with AWS Lambda to trace performance.

Intended audience

This course is intended for the following job roles:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, partners, and internal resources who wish to better understand how X-Ray can help them operate AWS solutions at scale. 

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• A basic understanding of AWS offerings and the challenges that organizations face when operating.

Course outline

Section 1: Introduction

• Lesson 1: Introduction to AWS X-Ray
• Lesson 2: Architecture and Use Cases

Section 2: Using AWS X-Ray

• Lesson 3: How Do I Generate Error Trace Data?
• Lesson 4: How Do I View AWS X-Ray Metrics in the AWS Management Console?
• Lesson 5: How Do I Query AWS X-Ray Metrics Using the AWS CLI?
• Lesson 6: How Do I Remove the Resources Provisioned for This Course?

Section 3: Resources

• Lesson 7: Learn More
• Lesson 8: Contact Us