Series

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK

In this series, I will be looking at instrumenting a variety of example with AWS X-Ray and looking at the resulting observability benefits.

Articles in this series

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 1

Aug 8, 20237 min read

Finding our way · One of the big challenges of distributed systems, such as serverless, is observability. In previous posts, I had a look at structured...

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 1

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 2

Aug 29, 20236 min read

Debugging an asynchronous step function · In the first part of this series, I added AWS X-Ray to a set of examples for my CDK Cloud Test Kit. In this...

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 2

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 3

Sep 24, 20237 min read

Instrumenting a whole application · In this post I continue my adventures with X-Ray and try my hand at observing a whole application. In the previous...

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 3