# AWS X-Ray Traces

AWS X-Ray enables developers to gather traces across their distributed services. In order to gain visibility into their applications, developers can use X-Ray to trace requests as they travel through their application, and collect data about the performance and errors of their application.

Baselime enables you to easily ingest this tracing data and make it available for analysis and troubleshooting.

Essential

Sending AWS X-Ray traces to Baselime is essential to gain a comprehensive view of your distributed applications. By ingesting X-Ray traces, Baselime can provide in-depth analysis and visualization of your application's performance and behavior, including end-to-end request tracking, error analysis, and latency monitoring.

Automatic

Baselime automatically ingests AWS X-Ray traces, there is no need for any additional steps after connecting your AWS account.

# How it works

To start ingesting traces from AWS X-Ray to Baselime, you'll need to connect your AWS account to Baselime. Once connected, Baselime will periodically poll your AWS account for new traces and automatically ingest them into your Baselime dataset.

# Troubleshooting

If you're having trouble sending data from AWS X-Ray to Baselime, here are a few things to check:

Verify that your AWS account is correctly connected to Baselime and you receive data in other datasets such as CloudWatch Metrics or CloudTrail Events
Check that the Baselime IAM user has the appropriate permissions to access X-Ray
Make sure that your applications emit X-Ray traces and you can view the traces in the X-Ray section of the AWS Console