AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry v0.17.0

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) v0.17.0 is now available. You can download the latest ADOT Collector image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public Gallery.

Release Highlights

• OpenTelemetry Collector v0.45.0
• OpenTelemetry Collector v0.44.0
• EKS Fargate metrics collected by ADOT sent to CloudWatch Container Insights using ADOT
• Improved documentation for building the ADOT Collector on Windows

Detailed release notes are on GitHub. All code changes are upstream in the respective OpenTelemetry project components.

Download

Detailed technical documentation is available on the ADOT developer site, and you can download the distribution from GitHub. You can also download the latest ADOT Collector image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public Gallery.

To learn more about how to use AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) to collect data for your observability solution, check out the hands-on AWS Observability workshop. Please file an issue if you have any questions about the distribution, features, or its components.

We also welcome you to participate in the OpenTelemetry project. The project was approved for incubation status earlier this year by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee (CNCF TOC). Learn more about AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry on the AWS Open Source Blog, where we announced the distribution’s general availability for tracing in September 2021.