Description

Enable X-Ray active tracing for API Gateway REST API stages to capture real-time metrics and trace the flow of user requests. This ensures enhanced monitoring and performance optimization across connected API Gateway and backend services.

Rationale

Enabling X-Ray Active tracing provides detailed visibility into API request performance, allowing rapid identification and resolution of bottlenecks or anomalies in the underlying infrastructure. With real-time metrics, teams can respond proactively to issues, reducing downtime risks and improving system performance. This traceability is especially critical for applications with complex dependencies and distributed architectures.

Impact

Enabling X-Ray Active tracing incurs costs associated with trace data processing and storage.

Audit

This policy marks an API Gateway Stage as INCOMPLIANT if the X-Ray Tracing Enabled field is set to No.