# Document History for AWS X-Ray Document HistoryUpdated AWS X-Ray SDKs and Daemon support timeline On February 25th, 2026, the AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon will enter maintenance mode, where AWS will limit X-Ray SDK and Daemon releases to address security issues only. For more information on the support timeline, see [X-Ray SDK and Daemon Support timeline](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-daemon-timeline.html). We recommend to migrate to OpenTelemetry. For more information on migrating to OpenTelemetry, see [Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-migration.html).Added end-of-support notice for AWS X-Ray SDKs and Daemon On February 25th, 2027, AWS X-Ray will discontinue support for AWS X-Ray SDKs and Daemon. We recommend to migrate to OpenTelemetry. For more information, see [Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-migration.html).Added functionality Migrating from X-Ray to OpenTelemetry. For more information, see [Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-migration.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray now supports Transaction Search. For more information, see [Transaction Search](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Transaction-Search.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray now supports OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) Endpoint. For more information, see [OpenTelemetry](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-OpenTelemetry-Sections.html). Added functionality X-Ray now logs data events, including `PutTraceSegments`, `GetTraceSummaries`, and `BatchGetTraces` to AWS CloudTrail. X-Ray also now logs the `GetSamplingStatisticSummaries` management event to CloudTrail. For more information, see [Logging X-Ray API calls with AWS CloudTrail](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-api-cloudtrail.html).Added functionality X-Ray now supports trace IDs created via OpenTelemetry or any other framework which conforms to the [W3C Trace Context specification](https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context/). For more information, see [Sending trace data to X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-api-sendingdata.html). Added functionality You can now configure Amazon SNS active tracing, enabling you to trace and analyze requests as they travel through your Amazon SNS topics. For more information, see [Amazon SNS and AWS X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-services-sns.html). Updated IAM managed policy details Added IAM permission for cross-account observability to the `AWSXRayReadOnlyAccess`, `AWSXRayFullAccess` and `AWSXrayCrossAccountSharingConfiguration` managed policies. For details, see [IAM managed policies for X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#xray-permissions-managedpolicies).Updated X-Ray SDK for Node.js topic Added details for instrumenting clients using the AWS SDK for JavaScript V3. For details, see [Tracing AWS SDK calls with the X-Ray SDK for Node.js](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-nodejs-awssdkclients.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray now supports *cross-account observability*, enabling you to monitor and troubleshoot applications that span across multiple accounts within an AWS Region. For details, see [Cross-account tracing](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console-crossaccount.html).Added functionality You can now view linked traces between message producers, an Amazon SQS queue, and consumers, providing a connected view of traces sent from event-driven applications. For more information, see [tracing event-driven applications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-tracelinking.html). Updated IAM managed policy details Added IAM permission for listing resource policies to the `AWSXRayReadOnlyAccess` managed policy. For details, see [IAM managed policies for X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#xray-permissions-managedpolicies).Updated IAM console permissions and managed policy details The set of IAM permissions the X-Ray console uses has been updated, along with the description of the `AWSXRayReadOnlyAccess` managed policy. For details, see [Using the X-Ray console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#security_iam_id-based-policy-examples-console).Added AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Ruby AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a single set of open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics. ADOT Ruby enables you to instrument your Ruby application for X-Ray and other tracing back-ends. For more information, see [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Ruby](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-ruby-opentel-sdk.html).Added functionality You can now view traces and configure X-Ray from the CloudWatch console. For more information, see [X-Ray console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console.html). Integrated CloudWatch RUM With AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch RUM, you can analyze and debug the request path starting from end users of your application through downstream AWS managed services. For more information, see [CloudWatch RUM and AWS X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/services-cloudwatch-RUM.html).Integrated AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a single set of open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics. ADOT enables you to instrument your application for X-Ray and other tracing back-ends. For more information, see [Instrumenting your app](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-instrumenting-your-app.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray now integrates with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, enabling resources in your Amazon VPC to communicate with the X-Ray service without going through the public internet. For more information, see [Using AWS X-Ray with VPC endpoints](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-security-vpc-endpoint.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray now integrates with CloudFormation, enabling you to provision and configure X-Ray resources. For more information, see [Creating X-Ray resources with CloudFormation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/creating-resources-with-cloudformation.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray now integrates with Amazon EventBridge to trace events that are passed through EventBridge. This provides users with a more complete view of their system. For more information, see [Amazon EventBridge and AWS X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-services-eventbridge.html).Added daemon to ECR The daemon can now be downloaded from Amazon ECR. For more information, see [Downloading the daemon](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-daemon.html#xray-daemon-downloading).Added functionality AWS X-Ray now supports insights related notifications to Amazon EventBridge. This allows you to take automatic actions on insights using EventBridge. For more information, see [Insights Notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console-insights.html#xray-console-insight-notifications).Added Downloadable Daemons AWS X-Ray introduces support daemon for Linux ARM64. For more information, see [AWS X-Ray daemonbrazil ws ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-daemon.html)Added functionality AWS X-Ray now supports active integration with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics. This allows you to see details about a Synthetics canary client node such as response time and status. You can also do analysis in the Analytics console based on information from a Synthetics canary client node. For more information, see [ Debugging CloudWatch synthetics canaries using X-Ray ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-services-cloudwatch-synthetics.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray now supports tracing end-to-end workflows for AWS Step Functions. You can visualize the components of your state machine, identify performance bottlenecks, and troubleshoot requests that resulted in an error. For more information, see [AWS Step Functions and AWS X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-services-stepfunctions.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray introduces insights to continuously analyze trace data in your account to identify emergent issues in your applications. Insights records incidents and track incident impact until resolution. For more information, see [ Using insights in the AWS X-Ray console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console-insights.html)Added functionality AWS X-Ray introduces the Java auto-instrumentation agent, enabling customers to collect trace data without having to modify existing Java-based application. You can now trace Java web and servlet based applications with minimal configuration change and no code change. For more information, see [AWS X-Ray auto-instrumentation agent for Java](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/aws-x-ray-auto-instrumentation-agent-for-java.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray has added a new **Groups** page to the X-Ray console to help ease the creation and management of groups of traces. For more information, see [Configuring groups in the X-Ray console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console-groups.html).Added functionality AWS X-Ray now lets you add tags to groups and sampling rules. You can also control access to groups and sampling rules based on tags. For more information, see [Tagging X-Ray sampling rules and groups](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-tagging.html) and [Managing access to X-Ray groups and sampling rules based on tags](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#security_iam_id-based-policy-examples-manage-sampling-tags). The following table describes the important changes to the documentation for AWS X-Ray. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed. **Latest documentation update**: March 07, 2024 | Change | Description | Date | | --- |--- |--- | | [Updated AWS X-Ray SDKs and Daemon support timeline](#document-history) | On February 25th, 2026, the AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon will enter maintenance mode, where AWS will limit X-Ray SDK and Daemon releases to address security issues only. For more information on the support timeline, see [X-Ray SDK and Daemon Support timeline](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-daemon-timeline.html). We recommend to migrate to OpenTelemetry. For more information on migrating to OpenTelemetry, see [Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-migration.html). | November 26, 2025 | | [Added end-of-support notice for AWS X-Ray SDKs and Daemon](#document-history) | On February 25th, 2027, AWS X-Ray will discontinue support for AWS X-Ray SDKs and Daemon. We recommend to migrate to OpenTelemetry. For more information, see [Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-migration.html). | August 22, 2025 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | Migrating from X-Ray to OpenTelemetry. For more information, see [Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-migration.html). | June 13, 2025 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now supports Transaction Search. For more information, see [Transaction Search](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Transaction-Search.html). | November 21, 2024 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now supports OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) Endpoint. For more information, see [OpenTelemetry](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-OpenTelemetry-Sections.html). | November 21, 2024 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | X-Ray now logs data events, including `PutTraceSegments`, `GetTraceSummaries`, and `BatchGetTraces` to AWS CloudTrail. X-Ray also now logs the `GetSamplingStatisticSummaries` management event to CloudTrail. For more information, see [Logging X-Ray API calls with AWS CloudTrail](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-api-cloudtrail.html). | March 7, 2024 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | X-Ray now supports trace IDs created via OpenTelemetry or any other framework which conforms to the [W3C Trace Context specification](https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context/). For more information, see [Sending trace data to X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-api-sendingdata.html). | October 25, 2023 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | You can now configure Amazon SNS active tracing, enabling you to trace and analyze requests as they travel through your Amazon SNS topics. For more information, see [Amazon SNS and AWS X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-services-sns.html). | February 8, 2023 | | [Updated X-Ray SDK for Node.js topic](#document-history) | Added details for instrumenting clients using the AWS SDK for JavaScript V3. For details, see [Tracing AWS SDK calls with the X-Ray SDK for Node.js](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-nodejs-awssdkclients.html). | February 7, 2023 | | [Updated IAM managed policy details](#document-history) | Added IAM permission for cross-account observability to the `AWSXRayReadOnlyAccess`, `AWSXRayFullAccess` and `AWSXrayCrossAccountSharingConfiguration` managed policies. For details, see [IAM managed policies for X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#xray-permissions-managedpolicies). | February 7, 2023 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now supports *cross-account observability*, enabling you to monitor and troubleshoot applications that span across multiple accounts within an AWS Region. For details, see [Cross-account tracing](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console-crossaccount.html). | November 27, 2022 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | You can now view linked traces between message producers, an Amazon SQS queue, and consumers, providing a connected view of traces sent from event-driven applications. For more information, see [tracing event-driven applications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-tracelinking.html). | November 20, 2022 | | [Updated IAM managed policy details](#document-history) | Added IAM permission for listing resource policies to the `AWSXRayReadOnlyAccess` managed policy. For details, see [IAM managed policies for X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#xray-permissions-managedpolicies). | November 15, 2022 | | [Updated IAM console permissions and managed policy details](#document-history) | The set of IAM permissions the X-Ray console uses has been updated, along with the description of the `AWSXRayReadOnlyAccess` managed policy. For details, see [Using the X-Ray console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#security_iam_id-based-policy-examples-console). | November 11, 2022 | | [Added AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Ruby](#document-history) | AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a single set of open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics. ADOT Ruby enables you to instrument your Ruby application for X-Ray and other tracing back-ends. For more information, see [AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Ruby](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-ruby-opentel-sdk.html). | February 7, 2022 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | You can now view traces and configure X-Ray from the CloudWatch console. For more information, see [X-Ray console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console.html). | January 24, 2022 | | [Integrated CloudWatch RUM](#document-history) | With AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch RUM, you can analyze and debug the request path starting from end users of your application through downstream AWS managed services. For more information, see [CloudWatch RUM and AWS X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/services-cloudwatch-RUM.html). | December 3, 2021 | | [Integrated AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry](#document-history) | The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a single set of open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics. ADOT enables you to instrument your application for X-Ray and other tracing back-ends. For more information, see [Instrumenting your app](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-instrumenting-your-app.html). | September 23, 2021 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now integrates with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, enabling resources in your Amazon VPC to communicate with the X-Ray service without going through the public internet. For more information, see [Using AWS X-Ray with VPC endpoints](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-security-vpc-endpoint.html). | May 20, 2021 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now integrates with CloudFormation, enabling you to provision and configure X-Ray resources. For more information, see [Creating X-Ray resources with CloudFormation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/creating-resources-with-cloudformation.html). | May 6, 2021 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now integrates with Amazon EventBridge to trace events that are passed through EventBridge. This provides users with a more complete view of their system. For more information, see [Amazon EventBridge and AWS X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-services-eventbridge.html). | March 2, 2021 | | [Added daemon to ECR](#document-history) | The daemon can now be downloaded from Amazon ECR. For more information, see [Downloading the daemon](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-daemon.html#xray-daemon-downloading). | March 1, 2021 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now supports insights related notifications to Amazon EventBridge. This allows you to take automatic actions on insights using EventBridge. For more information, see [Insights Notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console-insights.html#xray-console-insight-notifications). | October 15, 2020 | | [Added Downloadable Daemons](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray introduces support daemon for Linux ARM64. For more information, see [AWS X-Ray daemonbrazil ws ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-daemon.html) | October 1, 2020 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now supports active integration with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics. This allows you to see details about a Synthetics canary client node such as response time and status. You can also do analysis in the Analytics console based on information from a Synthetics canary client node. For more information, see [ Debugging CloudWatch synthetics canaries using X-Ray ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-services-cloudwatch-synthetics.html). | September 24, 2020 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now supports tracing end-to-end workflows for AWS Step Functions. You can visualize the components of your state machine, identify performance bottlenecks, and troubleshoot requests that resulted in an error. For more information, see [AWS Step Functions and AWS X-Ray](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-services-stepfunctions.html). | September 14, 2020 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray introduces insights to continuously analyze trace data in your account to identify emergent issues in your applications. Insights records incidents and track incident impact until resolution. For more information, see [ Using insights in the AWS X-Ray console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console-insights.html) | September 3, 2020 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray introduces the Java auto-instrumentation agent, enabling customers to collect trace data without having to modify existing Java-based application. You can now trace Java web and servlet based applications with minimal configuration change and no code change. For more information, see [AWS X-Ray auto-instrumentation agent for Java](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/aws-x-ray-auto-instrumentation-agent-for-java.html). | September 3, 2020 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray has added a new **Groups** page to the X-Ray console to help ease the creation and management of groups of traces. For more information, see [Configuring groups in the X-Ray console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-console-groups.html). | August 24, 2020 | | [Added functionality](#document-history) | AWS X-Ray now lets you add tags to groups and sampling rules. You can also control access to groups and sampling rules based on tags. For more information, see [Tagging X-Ray sampling rules and groups](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-tagging.html) and [Managing access to X-Ray groups and sampling rules based on tags](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#security_iam_id-based-policy-examples-manage-sampling-tags). | August 24, 2020 |