Introduction
This guide explores the technical architecture, instrumentation strategies, and implementation approaches for Application Signals, with particular focus on why organizations should migrate from traditional X-Ray sampling to the new comprehensive observability approach.
Guide Sections
| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| Challenges with Traditional Monitoring | Why legacy monitoring falls short for modern cloud-native applications |
| Why Migrate from X-Ray | Benefits of adopting Application Signals + Transaction Search over traditional X-Ray |
| Setup & Configuration | Step-by-step guide to enable Application Signals, Transaction Search, and sampling |
| Instrumentation and Collector Setup | Instrumentation approaches and detailed collector architectures (ADOT + CW Agent, ADOT + Custom Collector, Upstream OTEL, Collector-less, X-Ray legacy) |
| Instrumentation Samples | Language-specific code examples and demo applications for Java, Python, Node.js, .NET, Go, and Rust |
| Resources | Documentation links, technical resources, and training materials |