AWS X-Ray monitoring integration

New Relic offers an integration for reporting your AWS X-Ray data. This document explains how to activate this integration and describes the data that can be reported.

Activate the integration

To enable the AWS X-Ray integration, follow standard procedures to Connect AWS services to Infrastructure.

When you've successfully connected your AWS account with New Relic:

1. Go to one.newrelic.com > Infrastructure, and then click AWS.
2. Click Manage Services to select the AWS integration you want to activate.
3. Check the checkbox next to AWS X-Ray.
4. Click Save.

Configuration and polling

You can change the polling frequency and filter your data using configuration options.

Here's the default polling information for the AWS X-Ray integration:

• New Relic polling interval: 5 minutes

Find and use data

New Relic maps X-Ray segments into span events. Once you've activated this integration, you should see AWS X-Ray traces appearing in distributed tracing.

To filter your spans, you can use the newRelic.ingestPoint attribute. This attribute is set to xray.polling for all X-Ray spans.

Using custom IAM policies

If you're using a custom IAM policy when connecting your AWS account with New Relic Infrastructure, your custom policy will need the following permissions for the AWS X-Ray integration to work:

• xray:BatchGet*
• xray:Get*

X-Ray and Lambda Functions

Lambda functions require some configuration to use X-Ray. See the Using AWS X-Ray section in the AWS Lambda Developer Guide.

In particular, note that the execution role for your Lambda function will need additional permissions to record data to X-Ray.

X-Ray and Step Functions

AWS Step Function state machines are distributed applications, and can be monitored with X-Ray. X-Ray tracing needs to be explicitly enabled for X-Ray to capture data for step function state machines.

Be sure to enable X-Ray tracing for any lambda functions in your state machine as well as for the state machine overall.