AWS XRay: Unable to write to /tmp/.aws-xray/initialized. Failed to signal SDK initialization

Question

I am trying to write a Lambda function to store data in dyanamodb and try to integrate with AWS Xray. Below is the code for Lambda function. I am getting the error

Unable to write to /tmp/.aws-xray/initialized. Failed to signal SDK initialization. Subsegment put_item discarded due to Lambda worker still initializing

I install Aws xray SDK package. Also, begin segment and end segment are included in the code. and also set an environment variable of LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT. Please give a solution to this error.

import json
import os
import configparser
import boto3
from aws_xray_sdk.core import xray_recorder
from aws_xray_sdk.core import patch

patch(['boto3'])
dynamodb = boto3.resource('dynamodb')
table = dynamodb.Table(os.environ['dynamodb_table'])

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    for i in event:
        item = {
            'key': i['key'],
            'search': i['search'],
        }
        put_item_into_dynamodb(item)

    response = {
         "statusCode": 200,
         "body": json.dumps(item)
    }
    return response

def put_item_into_dynamodb(item):
    try:
        xray_recorder.begin_subsegment('put_item')
        response = table.put_item(Item=item)
        status_code = response['ResponseMetadata']['HTTPStatusCode']
        xray_recorder.current_subsegment().put_annotation('put_response', status_code)
    finally:
        xray_recorder.end_subsegment()

Update-2 (second problem) : in this code AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'put_annotation' this error is coming .. i dont have any idea why this is coming..

def lambda_handler(event, context):

    val = (str(event['userId']),str(event['teamId']), str(event['searchScope']))
    key_table = "|".join(val)
    key = {
        'key': key_table
    }
    response = get_item_into_dynamodb(key)

    try:
        data = response['Item']
        for i in data['search']:
            keyword_list.append(i['searchText'])
            dict_of_keyword[i['searchText']] = i['dateTime']

        recent_sort = sorted(dict_of_keyword.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
def get_item_into_dynamodb(key):
    try:
        xray_recorder.begin_segment('get_item')
        response = table.get_item(Key = key)
        status_code = response['ResponseMetadata']['HTTPStatusCode']
        xray_recorder.current_subsegment().put_annotation('get_response', status_code) #error is on this line
    finally:
        xray_recorder.end_subsegment()

    return response

Answer 1

You cannot create segments within Lambda function. Lambda will create the segments in the outside wrapper which you cannot access within the function. Could you try to change from xray_recorder.begin_segment('get_item') to xray_recorder.begin_subsegment('get_item')?

Also the trace data generated outside of lambda handler will not be captured because during that time the lambda function is still initializing and no tracing context is available.