How do I install the AWS X Ray skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add lap-platform/aws-x-ray in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

What does the AWS X Ray skill do?

AWS X-Ray API skill. Use when working with AWS X-Ray for Traces, CreateGroup, CreateSamplingRule. Covers 30 endpoints. It is listed under DevOps & Infra on SkillMD.

Is AWS X Ray safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. Independent scanners report: SkillSpector: PASS, Skill Scanner: PASS. Capability flags: makes network calls. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with AWS X Ray?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is AWS X Ray free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published AWS X Ray?

Lap-Platform (@lap-platform) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

AWS X Ray by lap-platform — Agent Skill

Name: AWS X Ray
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: Lap-Platform

AWS X-Ray

API version: 2016-04-12

Auth

AWS SigV4

Base URL

Not specified.

Setup

Configure auth: AWS SigV4
POST /Traces -- create first Traces

Endpoints

30 endpoints across 30 groups. See references/api-spec.lap for full details.

Traces

Method	Path	Description
POST	/Traces	Retrieves a list of traces specified by ID. Each trace is a collection of segment documents that originates from a single request. Use GetTraceSummaries to get a list of trace IDs.

CreateGroup

Method	Path	Description
POST	/CreateGroup	Creates a group resource with a name and a filter expression.

CreateSamplingRule

Method	Path	Description
POST	/CreateSamplingRule	Creates a rule to control sampling behavior for instrumented applications. Services retrieve rules with GetSamplingRules, and evaluate each rule in ascending order of priority for each request. If a rule matches, the service records a trace, borrowing it from the reservoir size. After 10 seconds, the service reports back to X-Ray with GetSamplingTargets to get updated versions of each in-use rule. The updated rule contains a trace quota that the service can use instead of borrowing from the reservoir.

DeleteGroup

Method	Path	Description
POST	/DeleteGroup	Deletes a group resource.

DeleteResourcePolicy

Method	Path	Description
POST	/DeleteResourcePolicy	Deletes a resource policy from the target Amazon Web Services account.

DeleteSamplingRule

Method	Path	Description
POST	/DeleteSamplingRule	Deletes a sampling rule.

EncryptionConfig

Method	Path	Description
POST	/EncryptionConfig	Retrieves the current encryption configuration for X-Ray data.

GetGroup

Method	Path	Description
POST	/GetGroup	Retrieves group resource details.

Groups

Method	Path	Description
POST	/Groups	Retrieves all active group details.

Insight

Method	Path	Description
POST	/Insight	Retrieves the summary information of an insight. This includes impact to clients and root cause services, the top anomalous services, the category, the state of the insight, and the start and end time of the insight.

InsightEvents

Method	Path	Description
POST	/InsightEvents	X-Ray reevaluates insights periodically until they're resolved, and records each intermediate state as an event. You can review an insight's events in the Impact Timeline on the Inspect page in the X-Ray console.

InsightImpactGraph

Method	Path	Description
POST	/InsightImpactGraph	Retrieves a service graph structure filtered by the specified insight. The service graph is limited to only structural information. For a complete service graph, use this API with the GetServiceGraph API.

InsightSummaries

Method	Path	Description
POST	/InsightSummaries	Retrieves the summaries of all insights in the specified group matching the provided filter values.

GetSamplingRules

Method	Path	Description
POST	/GetSamplingRules	Retrieves all sampling rules.

SamplingStatisticSummaries

Method	Path	Description
POST	/SamplingStatisticSummaries	Retrieves information about recent sampling results for all sampling rules.

SamplingTargets

Method	Path	Description
POST	/SamplingTargets	Requests a sampling quota for rules that the service is using to sample requests.

ServiceGraph

Method	Path	Description
POST	/ServiceGraph	Retrieves a document that describes services that process incoming requests, and downstream services that they call as a result. Root services process incoming requests and make calls to downstream services. Root services are applications that use the Amazon Web Services X-Ray SDK. Downstream services can be other applications, Amazon Web Services resources, HTTP web APIs, or SQL databases.

TimeSeriesServiceStatistics

Method	Path	Description
POST	/TimeSeriesServiceStatistics	Get an aggregation of service statistics defined by a specific time range.

TraceGraph

Method	Path	Description
POST	/TraceGraph	Retrieves a service graph for one or more specific trace IDs.

TraceSummaries

Method	Path	Description
POST	/TraceSummaries	Retrieves IDs and annotations for traces available for a specified time frame using an optional filter. To get the full traces, pass the trace IDs to BatchGetTraces. A filter expression can target traced requests that hit specific service nodes or edges, have errors, or come from a known user. For example, the following filter expression targets traces that pass through api.example.com: service("api.example.com") This filter expression finds traces that have an annotation named account with the value 12345: annotation.account = "12345" For a full list of indexed fields and keywords that you can use in filter expressions, see Using Filter Expressions in the Amazon Web Services X-Ray Developer Guide.

ListResourcePolicies

Method	Path	Description
POST	/ListResourcePolicies	Returns the list of resource policies in the target Amazon Web Services account.

ListTagsForResource

Method	Path	Description
POST	/ListTagsForResource	Returns a list of tags that are applied to the specified Amazon Web Services X-Ray group or sampling rule.

PutEncryptionConfig

Method	Path	Description
POST	/PutEncryptionConfig	Updates the encryption configuration for X-Ray data.

PutResourcePolicy

Method	Path	Description
POST	/PutResourcePolicy	Sets the resource policy to grant one or more Amazon Web Services services and accounts permissions to access X-Ray. Each resource policy will be associated with a specific Amazon Web Services account. Each Amazon Web Services account can have a maximum of 5 resource policies, and each policy name must be unique within that account. The maximum size of each resource policy is 5KB.

TelemetryRecords

Method	Path	Description
POST	/TelemetryRecords	Used by the Amazon Web Services X-Ray daemon to upload telemetry.

TraceSegments

Method	Path	Description
POST	/TraceSegments	Uploads segment documents to Amazon Web Services X-Ray. The X-Ray SDK generates segment documents and sends them to the X-Ray daemon, which uploads them in batches. A segment document can be a completed segment, an in-progress segment, or an array of subsegments. Segments must include the following fields. For the full segment document schema, see Amazon Web Services X-Ray Segment Documents in the Amazon Web Services X-Ray Developer Guide. Required segment document fields name - The name of the service that handled the request. id - A 64-bit identifier for the segment, unique among segments in the same trace, in 16 hexadecimal digits. trace_id - A unique identifier that connects all segments and subsegments originating from a single client request. start_time - Time the segment or subsegment was created, in floating point seconds in epoch time, accurate to milliseconds. For example, 1480615200.010 or 1.480615200010E9. end_time - Time the segment or subsegment was closed. For example, 1480615200.090 or 1.480615200090E9. Specify either an end_time or in_progress. in_progress - Set to true instead of specifying an end_time to record that a segment has been started, but is not complete. Send an in-progress segment when your application receives a request that will take a long time to serve, to trace that the request was received. When the response is sent, send the complete segment to overwrite the in-progress segment. A trace_id consists of three numbers separated by hyphens. For example, 1-58406520-a006649127e371903a2de979. This includes: Trace ID Format The version number, for instance, 1. The time of the original request, in Unix epoch time, in 8 hexadecimal digits. For example, 10:00AM December 2nd, 2016 PST in epoch time is 1480615200 seconds, or 58406520 in hexadecimal. A 96-bit identifier for the trace, globally unique, in 24 hexadecimal digits.

TagResource

Method	Path	Description
POST	/TagResource	Applies tags to an existing Amazon Web Services X-Ray group or sampling rule.

UntagResource

Method	Path	Description
POST	/UntagResource	Removes tags from an Amazon Web Services X-Ray group or sampling rule. You cannot edit or delete system tags (those with an aws: prefix).

UpdateGroup

Method	Path	Description
POST	/UpdateGroup	Updates a group resource.

UpdateSamplingRule

Method	Path	Description
POST	/UpdateSamplingRule	Modifies a sampling rule's configuration.

Common Questions

Match user requests to endpoints in references/api-spec.lap. Key patterns:

"Create a Trace?" -> POST /Traces
"Create a CreateGroup?" -> POST /CreateGroup
"Create a CreateSamplingRule?" -> POST /CreateSamplingRule
"Create a DeleteGroup?" -> POST /DeleteGroup
"Create a DeleteResourcePolicy?" -> POST /DeleteResourcePolicy
"Create a DeleteSamplingRule?" -> POST /DeleteSamplingRule
"Create a EncryptionConfig?" -> POST /EncryptionConfig
"Create a GetGroup?" -> POST /GetGroup
"Create a Group?" -> POST /Groups
"Create a Insight?" -> POST /Insight
"Create a InsightEvent?" -> POST /InsightEvents
"Create a InsightImpactGraph?" -> POST /InsightImpactGraph
"Create a InsightSummary?" -> POST /InsightSummaries
"Create a GetSamplingRule?" -> POST /GetSamplingRules
"Create a SamplingStatisticSummary?" -> POST /SamplingStatisticSummaries
"Create a SamplingTarget?" -> POST /SamplingTargets
"Create a ServiceGraph?" -> POST /ServiceGraph
"Create a TimeSeriesServiceStatistic?" -> POST /TimeSeriesServiceStatistics
"Create a TraceGraph?" -> POST /TraceGraph
"Create a TraceSummary?" -> POST /TraceSummaries
"Create a ListResourcePolicy?" -> POST /ListResourcePolicies
"Create a ListTagsForResource?" -> POST /ListTagsForResource
"Create a PutEncryptionConfig?" -> POST /PutEncryptionConfig
"Create a PutResourcePolicy?" -> POST /PutResourcePolicy
"Create a TelemetryRecord?" -> POST /TelemetryRecords
"Create a TraceSegment?" -> POST /TraceSegments
"Create a TagResource?" -> POST /TagResource
"Create a UntagResource?" -> POST /UntagResource
"Create a UpdateGroup?" -> POST /UpdateGroup
"Create a UpdateSamplingRule?" -> POST /UpdateSamplingRule
"How to authenticate?" -> See Auth section

Response Tips

Check response schemas in references/api-spec.lap for field details
Create/update endpoints typically return the created/updated object

References

Full spec: See references/api-spec.lap for complete endpoint details, parameter tables, and response schemas

Generated from the official API spec by LAP

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