AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry v0.22.1

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) v0.22.1 is now available. You can download the latest ADOT Collector image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public Gallery.

Notice

We are aware of a potential issue in the Go standard library prior to version 1.18.8 (CVE-2022-41716), used by the AWS Distribution for Open Telemetry (ADOT) Collector prior to v0.22.0

We have prepared a new release of the ADOT Collector, 0.22.1 using Go 1.18.8. There are no functional changes from ADOT Collector v0.22.0. We recommend that customers update their ADOT Collector to at least v0.22.1, at the earliest opportunity. See https://aws-otel.github.io/docs/getting-started/collector for information on deploying the ADOT Collector.

Reference: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-41716

Release Highlights

• Recompile with Go 1.18.8 to mitigate CVE-2022-41716.

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 in August 2021 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 and the distribution's general availability for metrics in May 2022.