AWS-Lambda-Lambda-Tracing-Enabled

Owned by naveen
Last updated: Jun 07, 2022
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Severity: Low

Description: This control ensures that AWS X-Ray Tracing is enabled for the Lambda function. When enabled, AWS X-Ray tracing collects data about requests to the application servers and provides tools to view, filter, and gain insights into that data to identify issues. AWS X-Ray gets detailed information not just about the request and response but also about the calls that the application makes to downstream AWS resources, micro-services, databases and HTTP web APIs.

Remediation Steps:

Perform following to enable tracing for lambda :

  1. Login to the AWS Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com.

  2. Navigate to AWS Lambda console.

  3. In the navigation pane,  select Functions.

  4. Click on the function to be modified.

  5. Under Debugging and Error handling, select the checkbox Active tracing for AWS X-Ray to enable tracing.

  6. Click Save changes to apply.

Important:

Using AWS X-Ray Active Tracing on Lambda Functions can incur additional charges

Reference:

Blue Hexagon Proprietary