# Creating additional subsegments
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**Note**  
X-Ray SDK/Daemon Maintenance Notice – On February 25th, 2026, the AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon will enter maintenance mode, where AWS will limit X-Ray SDK and Daemon releases to address security issues only. For more information on the support timeline, see [X-Ray SDK and Daemon Support timeline](xray-sdk-daemon-timeline.md). We recommend to migrate to OpenTelemetry. For more information on migrating to OpenTelemetry, see [Migrating from X-Ray instrumentation to OpenTelemetry instrumentation ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-migration.html).

In the user model class, the application manually creates subsegments to group all downstream calls made within the `saveUser` function and adds metadata.

**Example [https://github.com/awslabs/eb-java-scorekeep/tree/xray/src/main/java/scorekeep/UserModel.java](https://github.com/awslabs/eb-java-scorekeep/tree/xray/src/main/java/scorekeep/UserModel.java) - Custom subsegments**  

```
import [com.amazonaws.xray.AWSXRay](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray-sdk-for-java/latest/javadoc/com/amazonaws/xray/AWSXRay.html);
import [com.amazonaws.xray.entities.Subsegment](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray-sdk-for-java/latest/javadoc/com/amazonaws/xray/entities/Subsegment.html);
...
    public void saveUser(User user) {
    // Wrap in subsegment
    Subsegment subsegment = AWSXRay.beginSubsegment("## UserModel.saveUser");
    try {
      mapper.save(user);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      subsegment.addException(e);
      throw e;
    } finally {
      AWSXRay.endSubsegment();
    }
  }
```