AWS X-Ray is an analytics service provided by Amazon Web Services. It helps developers to perform analysis on the application behavior and working flow. With the help of X-Ray, developers can understand the application's performance and trace the root cause in order to improve optimization.

AWS X-Ray can be enabled on any compute AWS services. Once you have enabled X-Ray, it starts to generate data segments based on application interaction. For example, if you make an HTTP request to your application, then X-Ray will generate data about the host, request, response, computed time, and errors. Based on these segments of data, X-Ray generates a service graph. 

The service graph provides a visualized pattern for the developers to understand the application workflow and helps to determine its performance. Apart from the request and response data generation, X-Ray also generates records for your application interaction with AWS resource, microservices...