You are planning to use AWS X-Ray for a multiservice application for which operations teams are getting lots of complaints regarding application performance. Before integrating AWS X-Ray, you are looking into the core details of AWS X-Ray. Which of the following is the correct statement of AWS X-Ray?

Answer options:

A.Sub-Segments can only be embedded in a full segment document.
B.X-Ray Trace is a set of data points sharing the same Segment ID.C.Annotations consist of only system defined data.
D.Segment consists of multiple annotations.

Correct Answer – D
Segment consists of tracing records for a request which a distributed application makes. Segment consists of multiple system defined & user-defined annotations and sub-segments consisting of remote calls made from this application.
Option A is incorrect as Sub-Segments can also be sent independently apart from embedding in segment documents.
Option B is incorrect as X-Trace is a set of data points sharing the same Trace ID & not segment ID.Option C is incorrect as Annotations consists of system-defined & user-defined data.
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