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Add End-to-End Tracing Capabilities

x-ray

AWS X-Ray integrates with AWS App Mesh to manage Envoy proxies for microservices. App Mesh provides a version of Envoy that you can configure to send trace data to the X-Ray daemon running in a container of the same task or pod. X-Ray supports tracing with the following App Mesh compatible services:

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Let’s now enable the X-Ray integration for the Envoy proxies: