API Gateway X-Ray tracing is disabled Affecting API Gateway (REST APIs) service in AWS


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10
    Severity Framework
    Snyk CCSS
    Rule category
    General / APIs

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Description

Traces will not be collected for this API Gateway, which can impede incident management.

How to fix?

Set the xray_tracing_enabled attribute to true.

Example Configuration

resource "aws_api_gateway_stage" "example" {
  deployment_id = aws_api_gateway_deployment.example.id
  rest_api_id   = aws_api_gateway_rest_api.example.id
  stage_name    = "example"
  xray_tracing_enabled = true
}