Enable AWS X-Ray Daemon

01 Sign in to AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/.

03 In the navigation panel, under Elastic Beanstalk, choose Environments.

04 Click on the name of the Elastic Beanstalk environment that you want to examine, available in the Environment name column.

05 In the left navigation panel, under the name of the environment, choose Configuration.

06 On the selected environment configuration page, in the Software section, check the X-Ray daemon configuration attribute status. If the X-Ray daemon attribute status is set to disabled, the tracing feature is not enabled for the EC2 instances within the selected environment, therefore the AWS X-Ray support to identify web performance bottlenecks and help troubleshoot errors, is not currently enabled.

07 Repeat steps no. 4 – 6 to verify the X-Ray daemon status for other Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environments available within the current AWS cloud region.

08 Change the AWS region from the navigation bar and repeat the audit process for other regions.

01 Run describe-applications command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) with custom query filters to list the names of all the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk applications deployed in the selected AWS cloud region:

aws elasticbeanstalk describe-applications
  --region us-east-1
  --query 'Applications[*].ApplicationName'

02 The command output should return an array with the requested application name(s):

[
  "cc-project5-web-application",
  "cc-wordpress-main-website",
  "cc-django-prod-application"
]

03 Run describe-environments command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the Elastic Beanstalk application that you want to examine as the identifier parameter and custom query filters to describe the identifier (name) of the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environment created for the selected application:

aws elasticbeanstalk describe-environments
  --region us-east-1
  --application-name cc-project5-web-application
  --no-include-deleted
  --query 'Environments[*].EnvironmentName'

04 The command output should return the requested environment identifier (name):

[
  "cc-project5-web-environment"
]

05 Run describe-configuration-settings command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) to describe the X-Ray tracing feature configuration status available for the selected Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environment:

aws elasticbeanstalk describe-configuration-settings
  --region us-east-1
  --environment-name cc-project5-web-environment
  --application-name cc-project5-web-application
  --query 'ConfigurationSettings[*].OptionSettings[?(OptionName==`XRayEnabled`)].Value | []'

06 The command output should return the requested configuration status ("true" for enabled, "false" for disabled):

[
  "false"
]

07 Repeat steps no. 5 and 6 to verify the X-Ray daemon status for other Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environments created for the selected application.

08 Repeat steps no. 3 – 7 for each Amazon Elastic Beanstalk application deployed in the selected AWS cloud region.

09 Change the AWS region by updating the --region command parameter value and repeat steps no. 1 – 8 to perform the entire audit process for other regions.

01 Sign in to AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/.

03 In the navigation panel, under Elastic Beanstalk, choose Environments.

04 Click on the name of the Elastic Beanstalk environment that you want to reconfigure, available in the Environment name column.

05 In the left navigation panel, under the name of your environment, choose Configuration.

06 In the Software section, choose Edit to modify the selected environment configuration.

07 On the Modify software configuration page, in the AWS X-Ray section, toggle the Enabled button to enable tracing with AWS X-Ray for all the EC2 instances running within the selected Elastic Beanstalk environment. Choose Apply to save the configuration changes. Once the tracing is enabled, the AWS X-Ray daemon is installed on the available instances and runs as a service. After the changes are successfully implemented, the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environment status should change to "Environment update completed successfully.".

08 Repeat steps no. 4 – 7 to enable X-Ray tracing for other Elastic Beanstalk environments available within the current AWS cloud region.

09 Change the AWS region from the navigation bar and repeat the remediation process for other regions.

01 Run update-environment command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environment that you want to update as the identifier parameter, to enable tracing with AWS X-Ray for all the EC2 instances running within the selected application environment. Once the tracing is enabled, the AWS X-Ray daemon is installed on the available instances and runs as a service:

aws elasticbeanstalk update-environment
  --region us-east-1
  --environment-name cc-project5-web-environment
  --application-name cc-project5-web-application
  --option-settings Namespace="aws:elasticbeanstalk:xray",OptionName="XRayEnabled",Value="true"

02 The command output should return the metadata available for the reconfigured application environment:

{
  "ApplicationName": "cc-project5-web-application",
  "EnvironmentName": "cc-project5-web-environment",
  "VersionLabel": "Web Application V2",
  "Status": "Updating",
  "EnvironmentArn":
  "arn:aws:elasticbeanstalk:us-east-1:123456789012:environment/cc-project5-web-application/cc-project5-web-environment",
  "PlatformArn": "arn:aws:elasticbeanstalk:us-east-1::platform/PHP 7.4 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2/3.1.4",
  "EndpointURL": "awseb-AWSEB-ABCDABCDABCD-12345678.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com",
  "SolutionStackName": "64bit Amazon Linux 2 v3.1.4 running PHP 7.4",
  "EnvironmentId": "e-abcdabcdab",
  "CNAME": "cc-project5-web-environment.eba-abcdabcd.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com",
  "AbortableOperationInProgress": true,
  "Tier": {
    "Version": "1.0",
    "Type": "Standard",
    "Name": "WebServer"
  },
  "Health": "Grey",
  "DateUpdated": "2021-01-25T10:00:00.000Z",
  "DateCreated": "2021-01-25T10:00:00.000Z"
}

03 Repeat steps no. 1 and 2 to enable X-Ray tracing for other Elastic Beanstalk environments deployed in the selected AWS cloud region.

04 Change the AWS region by updating the --region command parameter value and repeat steps no. 1 – 4 to perform the entire remediation process for other regions.