X-Ray SDK and Daemon Support timeline - AWS X-Ray
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X-Ray SDK and Daemon Support timeline

The following table lists the dates and the level of support for X-Ray SDKs and Daemon.

SDK and daemon phase Start date End date Support provided

General availability

NA

February 25th, 2026

X-Ray SDKs and Daemon are fully supported. AWS provides regular SDK and daemon releases that include bug and security fixes.

Maintenance mode

February 25th, 2026

N/A

AWS will limit X-Ray SDK and Daemon releases to address security issues only. The SDKs/Daemon will not receive new feature enhancements.

We recommend that you migrate to OpenTelemetry solutions for instrumenting your application and sending traces to AWS X-Ray. For more information on migrating to OpenTelemetry, see Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation .