In collaboration with AWS, Grafana has launched an integration for AWS X-Ray, enhancing its capabilities as a comprehensive observability platform by supporting distributed tracing along with metrics and logs. This integration, compatible with Grafana version 7.2 and later, allows users to visualize and analyze trace data within Grafana, offering advanced analytical queries and insights into distributed applications' performance issues and errors. The X-Ray data source includes features like trace lists, trace statistics, insights powered by machine learning, and trace analytics, enabling users to explore, dashboard, and alert on application traces alongside other observability data in a unified dashboard. By doing so, it simplifies monitoring and incident triaging, reflecting Grafana's commitment to providing a seamless experience for users managing microservices architectures and distributed applications.