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AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

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Using Distro for OpenTelemetry

By capturing trace data using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, you can automatically instrument trace, sending data from Java web applications to AWS X-Ray to analyze trace data and debug errors.

Benefits

Instrument your applications just once, then send metrics and traces to multiple AWS monitoring solutions.

Speed up performance troubleshooting and reduce mean time to resolution with increased visibility into your AWS resources.

AWS support helps optimize performance, lower costs, and innovate faster, while testing provides quantifiable and predictable performance overhead.

Code and components undergo rigorous testing to be validated against security requirements.

Use cases

Automatically collect metadata for underlying AWS resources, and correlate application monitoring data with infrastructure monitoring data.

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Collect trace data for Java applications, Python applications, and AWS Lambda functions, and send to AWS X-Ray or other destinations.

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Automatically collect metadata for underlying AWS resources and use it to correlate application monitoring data with infrastructure monitoring data.

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Pair AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry with Cloudwatch to collect, analyze, and view custom metrics. Recognize trends, create dashboards, and set alarms to proactively monitor applications.

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