What should the developer do to accomplish these tasks?
Use Amazon CloudWatch to aggregate the microservices’ logs and metrics, and build the monitoring dashboard.
Use AWS CloudTrail to aggregate the microservices’ logs and metrics, and build the monitoring dashboard.
Use the AWS X-Ray SDK to add instrumentation in all the microservices, and monitor using the X-Ray service map.
Use AWS Health to monitor the health of all the microservices.
Explanations:
Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring for metrics and logs, but it is not designed specifically for tracking the end-to-end request flow or debugging between microservices. It helps aggregate logs and metrics, but it does not provide deep tracing or visualization of service interactions.
AWS CloudTrail logs API calls made on AWS resources, but it is not suitable for tracking application-level requests or debugging microservices interactions. It provides auditing, not tracing or service maps.
AWS X-Ray provides end-to-end tracing of requests across microservices, helping to monitor and debug the interactions between services. By using the X-Ray SDK, the developer can add instrumentation to the microservices and visualize the requests through the X-Ray service map, which is ideal for tracing and debugging distributed systems.
AWS Health monitors the health of AWS services and resources, not the application-level interactions or requests between microservices. It is focused on infrastructure health, not on application-level performance or debugging.
As I understand it, the answer is:
Use the AWS X-Ray SDK to add instrumentation in all the microservices, and monitor using the X-Ray service map.