An application development team decides to use AWS X-Ray to monitor application code to analyze performance and perform root cause analysis. What does the team need to do to begin using X-Ray?…

The correct answer is C. Instrument application code using the AWS SDK. D. Install the X-Ray agent on the application servers. To use AWS X-Ray, the application code must be instrumented using the AWS SDK or X-Ray SDK so that it can generate trace data for incoming requests. In addition, the X-Ray daemon (agent) must be installed and running on the application servers to collect the trace data and send…

Submitted by takeshi77· Mar 5, 2026Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Question

An application development team decides to use AWS X-Ray to monitor application code to analyze performance and perform root cause analysis. What does the team need to do to begin using X-Ray? (Choose two.)

Options

ALog instrumentation output into an Amazon SQS queue.
BUse a visualization tool to view application traces.
CInstrument application code using the AWS SDK.
DInstall the X-Ray agent on the application servers.
ECreate an Amazon DynamoDB table to store the trace logs.

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Explanation

To use AWS X-Ray, the application code must be instrumented using the AWS SDK or X-Ray SDK so that it can generate trace data for incoming requests. In addition, the X-Ray daemon (agent) must be installed and running on the application servers to collect the trace data and send it to the X-Ray service for analysis.

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