AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS X-Ray
Note
X-Ray SDK/Daemon Maintenance Notice – On February 25th, 2026, the AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon will enter maintenance mode, where AWS will limit X-Ray SDK and Daemon releases to address security issues only. For more information on the support timeline, see X-Ray SDK and Daemon Support timeline. We recommend to migrate to OpenTelemetry. For more information on migrating to OpenTelemetry, see Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation .
AWS Elastic Beanstalk platforms include the X-Ray daemon. You can run the daemon by setting an option in the Elastic Beanstalk console or with a configuration file.
On the Java SE platform, you can use a Buildfile file to build your application with Maven or Gradle on-instance. The X-Ray SDK for Java and AWS SDK for Java are available from Maven, so you can deploy only your application code and build on-instance to avoid bundling and uploading all of your dependencies.
You can use Elastic Beanstalk environment properties to configure the X-Ray SDK. The method that Elastic Beanstalk uses to pass environment properties to your application varies by platform. Use the X-Ray SDK's environment variables or system properties depending on your platform.
For more information, see Configuring AWS X-Ray Debugging in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.