You have integrated the application with the X-Ray SDK which generates segment documents recording the applications` tracing information. New recruit is enquiring about fields which are required with a Segment Document. Which of the following is a required field in a trace Segment sent by an application?

Answer options:

A.service
B.http
C.start_time
D.parent_id

Correct Answer – C
Following are the required segment fields in a Segment document.
1)Name
2)Id
3)Trace_id
4)Start_time
5)End_time
6)In_progress
Following are the optional segment fields in a Segment Document.
1)Service
2)User
3)Origin
4)Parent_id
5)http
6)aws
7)error, throttle, fault, and cause
8)annotations
9)metadata
10) subsegments
Option A is incorrect as service is an optional field in a Segment.
Option B is incorrect as HTTP is an optional field in a Segment.
Option D is incorrect as the parent_id field is required in the Subsegment field & optional in the Segment field.
For more information on Segments in an AWS X-Ray, refer to the following URL-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-api-segmentdocuments.html