TL;DR How do I install AWS X-Ray sdk, because the pip install doesn't seem to get the full package

Hello Folks,

I'm working on trying out AWS X-Ray for my Python lambda. I know the library is large, but I wanted to get a POC before putting it into a layer. The issue is that when I install it, it doesn't seem to get installed.

When I run pip install -r requirements.txt I see that it installs two packages, aws_xray_sdk and aws_xray_sdk-2.9.0.dist-info. When I look into these packages I see that they are 740 kilobytes altogether (makes me think this is a stub of some sort)

When I upload my lambda and test it, I get the following error even though the directories are in my venv:

[ERROR] Runtime.ImportModuleError: Unable to import module 'users/main': No module named 'aws_xray_sdk' Traceback (most recent call last):

Any help is greatly appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

To install the X-Ray SDK for Python, you simply do pip install aws-xray-sdk and that should work. This is explained in the documentation.

If this is not working, there is something else that's wrong with your setup.

CodePudding user response：

The issue was that I was not putting my dependencies in the root of my .zip file as the docs clearly show ='(

4. Create a deployment package with the installed libraries at the root.