Question

A developer instruments a Lambda-based order service with AWS X-Ray. They need to quickly find all traces belonging to a specific customer ID whenever that customer reports a failed checkout, so they can filter traces in the X-Ray console by that value. Which approach captures the customer ID so it is indexed and filterable in trace queries?

Accepted Answer

Add the customer ID as an annotation on the segment using the X-Ray SDK.

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Add the customer ID as metadata on the segment using the X-Ray SDK.

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Write the customer ID to a CloudWatch Logs entry and rely on Logs Insights only.

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Store the customer ID in an X-Ray subsegment name string.