Lab - Monitoring Micro-Service Architectures with AWS X-Ray and Amazon CloudWatch

In this lab, you use AWS X-ray to visualize, and monitor application usage.

Objectives

• Enable X-ray configuration in an application
• Create a map of services used by your application
• Visualize end-to-end application requests

Prerequisites

• understanding of system and application monitoring
• an intermediate knowledge of AWS cloud operations

Outline

Task 1: Review the web application
Task 2: Configure X-Ray instrumentation in the Application tier
Task 3: Configure X-Ray instrumentation in the Web tier
Task 4: Review X-Ray trace data in CloudWatch