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Please note that this workshop has been archived and is not actively maintained. On September 30, 2026, AWS will discontinue support for AWS App Mesh. For more information, visit this blog post.

Now access the X-Ray console. Once in the X-Ray console, select Service Map from the left hand side menu. Wait a few seconds for the service map to render.

You will see something like this:

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Whenever you select a node or edge on an AWS X-Ray service map, the X-Ray console shows a latency distribution histogram. Latency is the amount of time between when a request starts and when it completes. A histogram shows a distribution of latencies. It shows duration on the x-axis, and the percentage of requests that match each duration on the y-axis.

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