Ops World 1 · Watchtower · Stage 4

Trace the Request

Label requests through API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB. Each one is sampled or not, carries segments or not, and can be found by depot or not, by a rule you can read.

X-Ray segments and active tracing
Sampling rules
Annotations and metadata
The X-Ray daemon
Synthetics canaries

Domain: Operations and delivery
World: Ops World 1: Watchtower (Associate)
Game type: Solution board: Drop services into each row's slots, then run records through them.
Time: About 25 minutes on a first attempt (estimated)
Exam guides: SOA-C03Skill 1.1.1: Use AWS services (for example, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus) to configure monitoring and logging for workloads (for example, serverless, compute, AI)
DVA-C02Skill 4.1.2: Interpret application metrics, logs, and traces; Skill 4.2.4: Add annotations for tracing services; Skill 4.2.6: Implement tracing by using AWS services and tools
DOP-C02Task 4.2: Audit, monitor, and analyze logs and metrics to detect issues