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Annotation or metadata for filtering?

Your team needs to open the X-Ray console and quickly filter traces down to every request for one specific customer_id while investigating a complaint. You are deciding how to attach customer_id to your traces in code.

Should customer_id be added as an annotation or as metadata, and why?

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Monitoring and troubleshooting AWS

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