XRay and AwsParamStorePropertySource

Question

I am trying to enable X-Ray on our application. At first we were only getting information for Dynamo, but then I realized I needed to include the instrumentors for both v1 and v2 versions of the dependencies in maven. Now my problem is that I am getting tons of errors because segments aren't created for initialization tasks.

```
10:46:35.602 [main] ERROR o.s.c.a.p.AwsParamStorePropertySourceLocator - Fail fast is set and there was an error reading configuration from AWS Parameter Store:
Failed to begin subsegment named 'AWSSimpleSystemsManagement': segment cannot be found.
10:46:35.645 [main] ERROR o.s.boot.SpringApplication - Application run failed
```

I found an article https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/scorekeep-startup.html that seemed like it would give me what I wanted. The problem is that in that article the person has access to the code that is calling into the AWS SDK. In my case during start up we are calling to get a parameter store. This all happens outside of my direct control so I cannot easily wrap the call in a begin and endSegment call.

I am using Java 11, Springboot, and Maven.

I could just ignore the errors or change the logging level of that particular class to mask the issue, but that feels hacky. Is there another way to solve this? Any examples anywhere of someone solving it?

Jon_L · Answer

Hi Bryce,

If there aren’t any other issues apart from segments not being created for initialization tasks, it is fine to ignore the errors or change the logging level of that class. It is expected that segments aren't created for such initialization tasks.

XRay and AwsParamStorePropertySource

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