Navigating the AWS X-Ray console
In this section, I will give you a guided tour of X-Ray. You can just read this section, but I strongly advise you to follow the same steps as me so that you can easily understand how the new tool works:
- If you are accessing the X-Ray console for the first time, you can search for it and click on the service icon or access it directly via https://console.aws.amazon.com/xray/home. You will see a getting started page, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 4.1 – AWS X-Ray start page, first access
Important Note
At the time of writing, the X-Ray product team was about to release a new UI for the service, so you will see a message like the one shown in Figure 4.2 asking whether you would like to use the new interface. Eventually, the product team will roll out its final version, and all customers will use the new UI, so this message won’t exist. To keep this book as up-to-date as possible for longer...
