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DOP-C02 · Question #426

A company has deployed a microservices-based application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The application is experiencing performance issues. The company needs to identify which micro

The correct answer is B. Configure AWS X-Ray for each ECS task. Use an X-Ray service map to visualize the. The X-Ray service map visualizes the architecture and request flow, making it easy to spot which microservices have high latency or error rates. Filtering traces by response time and error rate directly identifies problematic microservices. Analyzing individual traces provides de

Submitted by olafpl· Mar 6, 2026Monitoring and Logging

Question

A company has deployed a microservices-based application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The application is experiencing performance issues. The company needs to identify which microservices are causing the issues. Which solution will provide this information?

Options

  • AConfigure AWS X-Ray for each ECS task. Create an X-Ray group for each microservice.
  • BConfigure AWS X-Ray for each ECS task. Use an X-Ray service map to visualize the
  • CConfigure Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for each ECS task. Analyze Container Insights
  • DConfigure Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for each ECS task. Use the CloudWatch

How the community answered

(31 responses)
  • A
    10% (3)
  • B
    71% (22)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    16% (5)

Explanation

The X-Ray service map visualizes the architecture and request flow, making it easy to spot which microservices have high latency or error rates. Filtering traces by response time and error rate directly identifies problematic microservices. Analyzing individual traces provides detailed insights into specific slow requests, helping pinpoint the root cause of performance issues.

Topics

#AWS X-Ray#Microservices#Performance monitoring#Amazon ECS#Service map

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