Posted On: Aug 14, 2023
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Kubernetes attributes processor in the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) collector. ADOT is a secure, production-ready, AWS supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this release, customers can use the ADOT collector to enable filtering and correlation use cases with Kubernetes-specific metadata such as a namespace or pod.
Customers can now use the Kubernetes attributes processor in the ADOT collector. At collection time, when using receivers such as the StatsD receiver, X-Ray receiver, or the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) receiver, you can configure the Kubernetes attributes processor in the pipeline to enrich the telemetry signals with Kubernetes-specific metadata. You can then, at analysis time, use this metadata to enable the filtering of traces and metrics from Kubernetes workloads. For example, in Amazon Managed Grafana, you can filter traces and metrics by Kubernetes namespace or pod. Further, the Kubernetes-specific metadata can be used to aid correlation in observability destinations including Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and Amazon OpenSearch.
You can configure and deploy the latest version of the ADOT collector by using AWS CloudFormation templates, the AWS Command Line Interface, kubectl commands, or the ADOT EKS add-on. Visit our developer portal to learn more about ADOT and download the latest release.