AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Secure, production-ready, open-source distribution with reliable performance
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.
How it works
OpenTelemetry provides open-source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application monitoring. With AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, you can collect metadata from your AWS resources and managed services to correlate application performance data with underlying infrastructure data, reducing the mean time to problem resolution.

Use cases
Collect and send metrics and traces
Automatically collect metadata for underlying AWS resources, and correlate application monitoring data with infrastructure monitoring data.
Automate trace collection
Collect trace data for Java applications, Python applications, and AWS Lambda functions, and send to AWS X-Ray or other destinations.
Collect metadata on application resources
Automatically collect metadata for underlying AWS resources and use it to correlate application monitoring data with infrastructure monitoring data.
Integrate with Amazon CloudWatch
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.
How to get started
Find answers to your questions
Learn more about how AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry fits into your observability solution.
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Get started with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry