# Configuring AWS X-Ray using the AWS toolkit for Visual Studio
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 AWS X-Ray provides request tracing, exception collection, and profiling capabilities. With the AWS X-Ray panel, you can enable or disable X-Ray for your application. For more information about X-Ray, see the [AWS X-Ray Developer Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/).

![Screenshot of AWS X-Ray configuration panel in Visual Studio Toolkit for Elastic Beanstalk](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/images/aeb-vs-linux-xray-tab.png)